Making Mail Friendlier: Adding Macintosh features and multimedia documents in UNIX mail

Author

John R. Meier, Dartmouth College

Date of Award

5-27-1986

Document Type

Thesis (Undergraduate)

Department or Program

Department of Computer Science

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.

Comments

Originally posted in the Dartmouth College Computer Science Technical Report Series, number PCS-TR86-135.

Recommended Citation

Meier, John R., "Making Mail Friendlier: Adding Macintosh features and multimedia documents in UNIX mail" (1986). Dartmouth College Undergraduate Theses. 203.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/senior_theses/203