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MIME::IO - DEPRECATED package for turning things into IO handles
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<I>Deprecated.</I>
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<I>As of MIME-tools 4.0, these routines are done by IO:: modules.
This module will be going away soon.</I>
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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 <B>IO::Handle</B> interface.
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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:
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<PRE> close
getline
getlines
print ARGS...
read BUFFER,NBYTES</PRE>
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Now with 5.004 on the shelves, tiehandle() makes this unnecessary.
Oh, well. <I>:-)</I>
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Obsoleted by IO::Wrap. The code:
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<PRE> use MIME::IO;
my $IO = wrap MIME::IO::Handle \*STDOUT;</PRE>
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can now be written more properly as:
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<PRE> use IO::Wrap;
my $IO = wraphandle \*STDOUT;</PRE>
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Obsoleted by IO::Scalar. The code:
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<PRE> 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"</PRE>
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can now be written more properly as:
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<PRE> use IO::Scalar;
$IO = new IO::Scalar \$scalar;
...</PRE>
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Copyright (c) 1996, 1997 by Eryq / eryq@zeegee.com
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All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute
it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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$Revision: 4.103 $ $Date: 1998/01/10 06:01:33 $
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