showpartial(1M)                                      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, 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.


















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