Message dated Sunday, 24 Apr 1994, 2:04am GMT from "jerry@ora.com (Jerry Peek)" > I'd also really like to get anyone's mhn tips. What have you done > to make composition easier? I'm interested because: Since mhn doesn't automatically figure out types or understand ~, I wrote the following perl script to do it for me. Basically you run it out of a shell escape in your editor and something like ifile ~/pics/disser.jpg ifile -ftp ~/pics/disser.jpg ifile -tar ~/pics/disser.jpg returns #image/jpeg /afs/engin.umich.edu/u/d/i/disser/pics/disser.jpg #@image/jpeg [] access-type=FTP ; \ name="/afs/engin.umich.edu/u/d/i/disser/pics/disser.jpg" ; \ site="rosencrantz.engin.umich.edu" #application/octet-stream ; type=tar ; \ conversions=x-compress /tmp/ifile.20708 Granted, the tar and ftp part could work better, but it's more convenient than the alternative. Script follows... --Dave