Version 3.0 of Z-Code Software Corp’s Unix-based electronic mail package, Z-Mail, now supports the Mime Multipart Internet Mail Extensions standard, which enables users to send binary audio, image and text files embedded in mail messages. According to Computerwoche, the multimedia data attaches itself to a conventional electronic mail file, and users simply have to indicate what type of document they are sending – for example, Framemaker – and give the relevant data file in that document a name. A list of incoming mail is supplied at the other end, with the multimedia file appearing as an icon. The user here simply double clicks on the document to access it. The whole system runs under OSF/Motif.
