showpartial(1M)                  DG/UX R4.11                 showpartial(1M)


NAME
       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, as is the full file (created by metamail) containing the
       entire message.


SEE ALSO
       metamail(1), mime(5)

NOTICES
       Author is Nathaniel S. Borenstein, Bell Communications Research, Inc.


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