Re: mailcap usage
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 06:34:57PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen Ray" wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 01:50:41 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > So, should netscape be reading /etc/mailcap on my system?
>
> Yes. But the netscape binaries look for it as /usr/local/lib/mailcap or
> somesuch. I believe the current Netscape debs have been fixed to work around
> this and use the correct location.
I ran an "strace netscape |& grep mailcap" (excuse the tcsh) and got:
stat("/usr/lib/netscape/47/communicator/mailcap", 0xbffff640) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/usr/local/lib/netscape/mailcap", 0xbfffe4e8) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/local/lib/netscape/mailcap", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/hamish/.mailcap", 0xbfffe4e8) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/home/hamish/.mailcap", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/hamish/.mailcap", 0xbfffe534) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
The wrapper sets MAILCAP=/etc/mailcap, but that doesn't seem to do anything.
Once I linked ~/.mailcap to /etc/mailcap it does work. It looks like
a symlink in /usr/lib/netscape/xxx/communicator would work too.
> > There doesn't seem to be any priorities specified in that file, so I could
> > end up with any one of those three pdf viewers.
>
> mailcap.order(5) is your friend.
And netscape and see/run-mailcap disagree completely :-) see shows
me pdf files in gv, netscape runs xpdf.
> Looks fine for me as well. The bug report is too brief to be useful, wait if
> you get additional information; if not, close it.
Seems to run fine here.
Hamish
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