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

[C.W.Holeman II]

>I suspect that the problem is the operating system not reporting the
>files as actually ending with ".". Try with filenames "mime_types" and


I too had that thought and changed to mailcap.dat and mime_types.dat.

>"mailcap". A trace would show what is happening, but I am not sure that
>trace is working in Win32. If it is, run "lynx -trace" and look in the
>Lynx.trace file for a line starting:
>HTLoadExtensionsConfigFile:


    ProcessMailcapFile: Loading file '/usr/local/lib/mosaic/mailcap'.
    ProcessMailcapFile: Could not open '/usr/local/lib/mosaic/mailcap'.
    ProcessMailcapFile: Loading file 'mailcap.dat'.
    ProcessMailcapEntry Setting up conversion application/start-tar :  dir

    HTLoadExtensionsConfigFile: Loading file
'/usr/local/lib/mosaic/mime.types'.
    HTLoadExtensionsConfigFile: Could not open
'/usr/local/lib/mosaic/mime.types'.
    HTLoadExtensionsConfigFile: Loading file 'mime_types.dat'.

So, the mailcap is picking up application/start-tar but I do not see a
reference to it under the mime types.

Here is the contents of mime_types.dat:

    application/start-tar tar

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