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Customizing the Operating System
5.8 Setting Up the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) Utility
5.8.1 Defining a Foreign Command
Your only installation work is to define a foreign command to run the utility, for
example:
MIME:== $SYS$SYSTEM:MIME.EXE
You can establish systemwide defaults for displaying MIME-encoded messages by
creating two files: MIME$MAILCAP.DAT and MIME$FILETYPES.DAT.
MIME$MAILCAP.DAT identifies an application to display each locally recognized
content-type of incoming MIME-encoded files. MIME$FILETYPES.DAT
associates a content-type with the file extension of outgoing files.
A user can override those defaults by creating these files in SYS$LOGIN. See the
OpenVMS User’s Manual for details about those files.
5.9 Saving Your Customization
Once you have installed and customized your system, Compaq recommends that
you back up your system disk. To do so, follow the instructions in Section 11.17.
On VAX systems, back up the console volume (if applicable). If your computer
has a console storage device, make a backup copy of your console volume in case
your original becomes corrupted. The operating system provides a command
procedure called CONSCOPY.COM (in the SYS$UPDATE directory), which copies
your console volume to a blank one.
The procedure for backing up the console volume varies for different computers.
For specific instructions on backing up the console volumes, refer to the upgrade
and installation supplement for your VAX computer.
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