---
name: "MIME::IO"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "libmime-perl"
version: "4.121-2.1"
release: "Debian 2.2 (Potato)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/MIME::IO"
---

# MIME::IO(3pm)

MIME::IO - DEPRECATED package for turning things into IO handles *Deprecated.* *As of MIME-tools 4.0, these routines are done by IO:: modules.* *This module will be going away soon.* 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;
    ...
```

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. $Revision: 4.104 $ `$Date:` 1998/05/14 02:00:42 $