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Re: lynx-dev Getting Pine to load lynx
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Doug Kaufman |
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Re: lynx-dev Getting Pine to load lynx |
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Mon, 27 Jul 1998 18:16:28 -0700 (PDT) |
On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Michael Warner wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 1998, Roger Hill <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote:
> > ...
> > > Please has anyone been able to configure pine to fire up lynx (in
> > > text mode) for viewing html attachments? .. I am sure this should be
> ...
> > For Pine 3.96 and 3.95 add the following line to /etc/mailcap:
> >
> > text/html; lynx -force_html -cfg=/usr/local/lib/lynx.cfg %s;needsterminal
This is the line from the .mailcap file in my home directory. It works
with pine 3.96 without any problems that I've noted:
text/html; lynx -force_html -underscore -dump %s ; copiousoutput
I haven't played with this for a while, but I think that it didn't work
on my machine without "-dump". Since this is a version of lynx that I
built, my cfg file is used by default. I am not sure when needsterminal
or copiousoutput is correct. The following is an excerpt from RFC1524,
which defines the mailcap form:
-- The "needsterminal" field indicates that the view-command must be
run on an interactive terminal. This is needed to inform window-
oriented user agents that an interactive terminal is needed. (The
decision is not left exclusively to the view-command because in
some circumstances it may not be possible for such programs to
tell whether or not they are on interactive terminals.) The
needsterminal command should be assumed to apply to the compose
and edit commands, too, if they exist. Note that this is NOT a
test -- it is a requirement for the environment in which the
program will be executed, and should typically cause the creation
of a terminal window when not executed on either a real terminal
or a terminal window.
-- The "copiousoutput" field indicates that the output from the
view-command will be an extended stream of output, and is to be
interpreted as advice to the UA (User Agent mail-reading program)
that the output should be either paged or made scrollable. Note
that it is probably a mistake if needsterminal and copiousoutput
are both specified.
Doug
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