From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/20271 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matt Armstrong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: MIME handling for common MS Windows attachments? Date: 13 Jan 1999 09:12:35 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87lnj76qrg.fsf@mattdav.vip.best.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-=-=" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035158592 16863 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:03:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:03:12 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA05691 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 12:18:30 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAB11496; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:18:00 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:17:59 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA00707 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:17:48 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from proxy4.ba.best.com (root@proxy4.ba.best.com [206.184.139.15]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA05674 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 12:17:40 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from mattdav.vip.best.com (matta@dynamic21.pm02.east-bay.best.com [209.157.52.85]) by proxy4.ba.best.com (8.9.1/8.9.0/best.out) with ESMTP id JAA11811 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 09:12:38 -0800 (PST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "12 Jan 1999 18:25:28 +0100" Original-Lines: 213 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070069 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.69) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:20271 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:20271 This is a MIME multipart message. If you are reading this, you shouldn't. --=-=-= Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Hrvoje Niksic writes: > > > I still think relieving users by defaulting ms-word to MS Word > > viewers, etc., might be useful, even if strictly against FSF's > > philosophy. > > I think so, to. Defaulting *.doc to ms-word is bad, but I see no harm > in defaulting application/ms-word to MS Word (or something else that > can understand these files). I think defaulting .doc to ms-word is good when running under Win32. Anyway, Debian Linux has an /etc/mime.types file that does what mailcap.el's mailcap-mime-extensions does. I'm not sure how Debian specific it is, but are people open to having Gnus look for it (or maybe a ~/.mime.types file)? --=-=-= Content-Disposition: attachment Content-Description: Debian's /etc/mime.types file ############################################################################### # # MIME types and the extensions that represent them # # This file is part of the "mime-support" package. Please send email (not a # bug report) to the maintainer if you would like new types and/or extensions # to be added. # ############################################################################### application/activemessage application/andrew-inset application/applefile application/atomicmail application/cu-seeme csm cu application/dca-rft application/dec-dx application/dsptype tsp application/excel xls application/futuresplash spl application/ghostview application/mac-binhex40 hqx application/macwriteii application/msword doc dot application/news-message-id application/news-transmission application/octet-stream bin application/oda oda application/pdf pdf application/pgp-signature pgp application/postscript ps ai eps application/powerpoint ppt application/remote-printing application/rtf rtf application/slate application/wita application/wordperfect5.1 wp5 application/zip zip application/x-123 wk application/x-Wingz wz application/x-bcpio bcpio application/x-core application/x-cpio cpio application/x-csh application/x-debian-package deb application/x-director dcr dir dxr application/x-dvi dvi application/x-executable application/x-font pfa pfb gsf pcf pcf.Z application/x-gtar gtar tgz application/x-hdf hdf application/x-httpd-php phtml pht php application/x-httpd-php3 php3 application/x-httpd-php3-source phps application/x-httpd-php3-preprocessed php3p application/x-java class application/x-kdelnk application/x-latex latex application/x-maker frm maker frame fm fb book fbdoc application/x-mif mif application/x-msdos-program com exe bat application/x-netcdf nc cdf application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig pac application/x-object o application/x-perl pl pm application/x-rx application/x-sh application/x-shar shar application/x-shellscript application/x-shockwave-flash swf swfl application/x-stuffit sit application/x-sv4cpio sv4cpio application/x-sv4crc sv4crc application/x-tar tar application/x-tcl application/x-tex application/x-tex-gf gf application/x-tex-pk pk PK application/x-texinfo texinfo texi application/x-trash ~ % bak old sik application/x-troff t tr roff application/x-troff-man man application/x-troff-me me application/x-troff-ms ms application/x-ustar ustar application/x-wais-source src audio/basic au snd audio/midi mid midi audio/mpeg mpga mpega mp2 mp3 audio/mpegurl m3u audio/x-aiff aif aiff aifc audio/x-pn-realaudio ra rm ram audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin rpm audio/x-wav wav image/gif gif image/ief ief image/jpeg jpeg jpg jpe image/png png image/tiff tiff tif image/x-cmu-raster ras image/x-ms-bmp bmp image/x-portable-anymap pnm image/x-portable-bitmap pbm image/x-portable-graymap pgm image/x-portable-pixmap ppm image/x-rgb rgb image/x-xbitmap xbm image/x-xpixmap xpm image/x-xwindowdump xwd inode/chardevice inode/blockdevice inode/directory-locked inode/directory inode/fifo inode/socket message/external-body message/news message/partial message/rfc822 multipart/alternative multipart/appledouble multipart/digest multipart/mixed multipart/parallel text/comma-separated-values csv text/english text/html html htm text/plain txt text/richtext rtx text/tab-separated-values tsv text/x-c++hdr h++ hpp hxx hh text/x-c++src c++ cpp cxx cc text/x-chdr h text/x-crontab text/x-csh csh text/x-csrc c text/x-java java text/x-makefile text/x-moc moc text/x-pascal p pas text/x-setext etx text/x-sh sh text/x-tcl tcl tk text/x-tex tex ltx sty cls text/x-vCalendar vcs text/x-vCard vcf video/dl dl video/fli fli video/gl gl video/mpeg mpeg mpg mpe video/quicktime qt mov video/x-ms-asf asf asx video/x-msvideo avi video/x-sgi-movie movie x-world/x-vrml vrm vrml wrl --=-=-= > A more sticky issue is whether to default image/* to the un-free, > but commonly installed xv, or to some free image viewing program. > > What image viewing programs exist out there? > > (Well, it isn't really a sticky issue, because we could default to > free programs, and then use non-free programs as the backup default > values if the free programs don't exist on the system.) I assume that files like /etc/mailcap override Gnus' defaults? -- Matt --=-=-=--