showpartial(1M)
showpartial --
display the body of a mail message included by reference
Synopsis
showpartial filename id partnum totalnum
Description
The showpartial program
uses the type message/partial to identify
the body of a MIME-format message
and attempts to fetch each of the pieces
for later use.
When showpartial is called on the last piece,
it will put the pieces together and call metamail
to display the full message. It is intended
to be called by metamail via a mailcap entry
modeled after the following:
message/partial; showpartial %s %{id} %{partnum} %{totalnum}
The parts are temporarily saved on /tmp, which
can be a problem, since
/tmp can fill up before the remaining parts are fetched.
When the message is finally displayed, via
metamail, the parts are all discarded,
and the user is asked whether or not to delete the
file containing the entire message.
References
metamail(1)
Notices
Author is Nathaniel S. Borenstein, Bell Communications Research, Inc.
See copyright page for further information.
© 2004 The SCO Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
UnixWare 7 Release 7.1.4 - 25 April 2004