/usr/openwin/bin/mp capable of ISO-8859-1?

2007-12-25 8:51:00

Hello all!

I (Matthias Pfuetzner) wrote:

>

> Hello Sun-Managers!

>

> I'd like to know whether anybody has "patch"ed the prologue files of

> (SunOS 4.1.3's) /usr/openwin/bin/mp so that it supports ISO-8859-1 if this

> would be the only thing to make "mp" capable of ISO-8859-1?

>

> If I pipe a mail containing ISO-8859-1 Umlauts through mp, it prints nothing

> or only spaces for those characters.

[...]

> Would such a "patch" be all to make ISO-8859-1 characters be printable by

> "mp"?

>

> So, if anyone out there in net-space can give me a hint, I'd be most grateful!

Thanks to all who replied! I have to say: SHAME ON ME!

My fault has been, that I thought, that this is a Sun specific program, and

not a freely available one.

The always newest version can be found on:

ftp.x.org:/contrib/utilities/

as

mpdist*

Sincerly,

        Matthias


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