• 作者： 陳耀宗; 洪鴻洲; 陳俊儒
• 作者服務機構： 國立交通大學資訊工程學系
• 中文摘要： 一九九零年代電腦與通訊技術之迅速演進帶來了多媒體通訊之紀元。如今之電腦使用者已能夠以多媒體格式互相交換資訊。在此論文中，我們討論了一個MIME格式之多媒體郵件用戶系統之設計與發展，它可以處理不同之媒體格式，包括文字、影像、圖形、音訊與視訊。系統發展包含了三個主要部份：一個以視窗為基礎之圖形使用者介面，它提供了一個親切的插圖驅動式人機互動以簡化信件內容之瀏灠與閱讀，並透過不同工具以處理MIME格式之多媒體郵件；還有一個多媒體之編輯工具讓使用者創作與修改多媒體文件；另外一個是張貼與接收處理模組，它負責外送文件之編碼與整合，及接收文件之解碼與其它功能，例如解壓縮，使進來之多媒體文件能以原來之型式顯示。此系統架構於X-視窗與微軟視窗之上。系統並未提供POP3與IMAP4之功能，同時也尚未考慮安全之問題。
• 英文摘要： The rapid advances in computer and communication technologies in the 1990's started the era ofmultimedia communication. Present-day computer users can exchange multimedia information throughelectronic mail. In this research, we studied and prototyped a MIME（Multipurpose Internet MailExtensions）multimedia mail client system, which is able to accommodate various formats of media dataincluding text, images, graphics, audio and video. The key development includes three components: awindow-based GUI (Graphic User Interface) which features friendly icon-driven man-machine interactionto ease browsing and viewing of mail contents and tools for manipulating documents in MIME format;an authoring tool that allows users to create and modify multimedia documents; and a posting/receipt handlerwhich deals with both encoding and integrating outgoing mail documents and performs decoding and othernecessary functions for incoming mail. The system has been prototyped based on both X-Window andMicrosoft Windows. Some features provided in POP3 and IMAP4 is not included here, and the securityissue has not been considered.
• 中文關鍵字： MIME; multimedia mail; GUI; man-machine interaction; X-Window; Microsoft Windows
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