ARCHIVED: With Pine, how can I view a MIME encoded graphic?

Note: Pine is not available on any central UITS systems. UITS does not support the use of Pine at Indiana University.

Note: The software discussed here is no longer in common use at IU, and UITS may no longer be able to verify this text's accuracy; additionally, the UITS Support Center may no longer have the materials needed to adequately support this software.

Pine is able to launch a graphics viewer like xv to display many common types of graphics files.

However, since xv works only under the X Window System, you must be able to run an X server on your computer to use it. While there are X servers for computers running Mac OS and Windows, it is usually easier to download the MIME attachment onto your personal computer and view it there. Once the file is downloaded, how you view it depends on what kind of computer you have and what graphics software you use.

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