BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
ID:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR86-135
ENTRY:: January 20, 1995
ORGANIZATION:: Dartmouth College, Computer Science
TITLE:: Making Mail Friendlier: Adding Macintosh features and multimedia documents in UNIX mail
TYPE:: Technical Report (paper)
REVISION:: 1
AUTHOR:: Meier, John R.
NOTE:: The 'January' in DATE is an arbitrary placeholder.
DATE:: January 1986
RETRIEVAL:: For a paper copy, email <reports@cs.dartmouth.edu>
RETRIEVAL:: For a paper copy, write to
       Technical Report Librarian
       Department of Computer Science
       Dartmouth College
       6211 Sudikoff Laboratory
       Hanover, NH 03755-3510
       USA
RETRIEVAL:: PDF at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR86-135.pdf
ABSTRACT::
	This paper describes a Macintosh application which acts as a
front-end to Unix mail.  Features of the Macintosh interface such as
icons, menus, and windows replace the command driven interface.
Complicated editing commands are replaced with mouse selection and
cut, copy, and paste.  Message can be composed of text, pictures, and
any Macintosh file, because they are encoded into plain text, sent
through the mail system,and then unencoded by the receiving end.  The
designs of the mail server and communications interface are such that
mail servers and communications other than Unix mail and a serial line
may be easily implemented.
END:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR86-135