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Re: file attachments in MIME

1993-03-08 07:48:44
Excerpts from internet.ietf-822: 4-Mar-93 RE: file attachments in MIME "Terry Crowley"@diamond. (1898)


Nathaniel - how does Andrew distinguish /mixed and parallel subtypes
when presenting the document to the user?


It doesn't. (So much for the hypothesis that this was only put in there for Andrew's benefit!)

Metamail, however, which has a tendency to exec a process for nearly each body part, will invoke such processes in parallel when the parts are inside a multipart/parallel.
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