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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1999-04-23 16:44:53 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1999-04-23 16:44:53 (GMT)
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
\section{\module{mimify} ---
- Mimification and unmimification of mail messages.}
-\declaremodule{standard}{mimify}
+ MIME processing of mail messages}
+\declaremodule{standard}{mimify}
\modulesynopsis{Mimification and unmimification of mail messages.}
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ and from MIME format. The mail message can be either a simple message
or a so-called multipart message. Each part is treated separately.
Mimifying (a part of) a message entails encoding the message as
quoted-printable if it contains any characters that cannot be
-represented using 7-bit ASCII. Unmimifying (a part of) a message
+represented using 7-bit \ASCII. Unmimifying (a part of) a message
entails undoing the quoted-printable encoding. Mimify and unmimify
are especially useful when a message has to be edited before being
sent. Typical use would be:
@@ -29,17 +29,17 @@ user-settable variables:
Copy the message in \var{infile} to \var{outfile}, converting parts to
quoted-printable and adding MIME mail headers when necessary.
\var{infile} and \var{outfile} can be file objects (actually, any
-object that has a \code{readline} method (for \var{infile}) or a
-\code{write} method (for \var{outfile})) or strings naming the files.
+object that has a \method{readline()} method (for \var{infile}) or a
+\method{write()} method (for \var{outfile})) or strings naming the files.
If \var{infile} and \var{outfile} are both strings, they may have the
same value.
\end{funcdesc}
-\begin{funcdesc}{unmimify}{infile, outfile, decode_base64 = 0}
+\begin{funcdesc}{unmimify}{infile, outfile\optional{, decode_base64}}
Copy the message in \var{infile} to \var{outfile}, decoding all
quoted-printable parts. \var{infile} and \var{outfile} can be file
-objects (actually, any object that has a \code{readline} method (for
-\var{infile}) or a \code{write} method (for \var{outfile})) or strings
+objects (actually, any object that has a \method{readline()} method (for
+\var{infile}) or a \method{write()} method (for \var{outfile})) or strings
naming the files. If \var{infile} and \var{outfile} are both strings,
they may have the same value.
If the \var{decode_base64} argument is provided and tests true, any
@@ -56,14 +56,14 @@ Return a MIME-encoded version of the header line in \var{line}.
\begin{datadesc}{MAXLEN}
By default, a part will be encoded as quoted-printable when it
-contains any non-ASCII characters (i.e., characters with the 8th bit
-set), or if there are any lines longer than \code{MAXLEN} characters
+contains any non-\ASCII{} characters (i.e., characters with the 8th bit
+set), or if there are any lines longer than \constant{MAXLEN} characters
(default value 200).
\end{datadesc}
\begin{datadesc}{CHARSET}
When not specified in the mail headers, a character set must be filled
-in. The string used is stored in \code{CHARSET}, and the default
+in. The string used is stored in \constant{CHARSET}, and the default
value is ISO-8859-1 (also known as Latin1 (latin-one)).
\end{datadesc}
@@ -77,10 +77,10 @@ to encode (mimify) and decode (unmimify) respectively. \var{infile}
defaults to standard input, \var{outfile} defaults to standard output.
The same file can be specified for input and output.
-If the \code{-l} option is given when encoding, if there are any lines
+If the \strong{-l} option is given when encoding, if there are any lines
longer than the specified \var{length}, the containing part will be
encoded.
-If the \code{-b} option is given when decoding, any base64 parts will
+If the \strong{-b} option is given when decoding, any base64 parts will
be decoded as well.