Re: lynx-dev SUFFIX+VIEWER set to invoke tar

[Greg Marr]

At 06:24 PM 8/17/98 -0700, Doug Kaufman wrote:
>> >application/start-tar tar
>> 
>> I created mime_types. with the above contents.
>> 
>> I created mailcap. containing:
>> 
>>     application/start-tar; dir 
>> 
>> I placed in lynx.cfg:
>> 
>>     PERSONAL_EXTENSION_MAP:mime_types.
>> 
>>     PERSONAL_MAILCAP:mailcap.
>>...
>> >It displays:
>> >
>> >application/x-tar  D)ownload, or C)ancel
>
>I suspect that the problem is the operating system not reporting the
>files as actually ending with "."

The problem appears to be that the server is sending application/x-tar as the
MIME type, but the handler is only configured for application/start-tar.  Try
adding the same handler for application/x-tar.  The suffix mapping, IIRC, is
only used for reading local files, and for access methods, such as ftp, that
don't send MIME types.

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