NAME

MIME::IO - DEPRECATED package for turning things into IO handles

SYNOPSIS

Deprecated.

WARNING

As of MIME-tools 4.0, these routines are done by IO:: modules. This module will be going away soon.

DESCRIPTION

As of MIME-tools 2.0, input and output routines cannot just assume that they are dealing with filehandles. In an effort to come up with a nice, OO way of encapsulating input/output streams, I decided to use a minimal subset of Graham Barr's IO::Handle interface.

Therefore, all that MIME::Body, MIME::Decoder, and the other classes require (and, thus, all that they can assume) is that they are manipulating an object which responds to the following small, well-defined set of messages:

close
getline
getlines
print ARGS...
read BUFFER,NBYTES

Now with 5.004 on the shelves, tiehandle() makes this unnecessary. Oh, well. :-)

MIME::IO::Handle

Obsoleted by IO::Wrap. The code:

use MIME::IO;
my $IO = wrap MIME::IO::Handle \*STDOUT;

can now be written more properly as:

use IO::Wrap;
my $IO = wraphandle \*STDOUT;

MIME::IO::Scalar

Obsoleted by IO::Scalar. The code:

use MIME::IO;
$IO = new MIME::IO::Scalar \$scalar;
$IO->print("Some data\n");
$IO->print("Some more data\n");
$IO->close;    # ...$scalar now holds "Some data\nSome more data\n"

can now be written more properly as:

use IO::Scalar;
$IO = new IO::Scalar \$scalar;
...

AUTHOR

Copyright (c) 1996, 1997 by Eryq / eryq@zeegee.com

All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

VERSION

$Revision: 4.103 $ $Date: 1998/01/10 06:01:33 $