From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79965 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sj=F8gren?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: viewing `application/octet-stream' MIME parts Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:59:53 +0200 Organization: koldfront - analysis & revolution, Copenhagen, Denmark Message-ID: <87ty86mikm.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> References: <871uvbdlm9.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh> <877h530y2b.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <877h52divu.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh> <87vcsmzwgi.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <87y5xixrj1.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1316592021 11393 80.91.229.12 (21 Sep 2011 08:00:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:00:21 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28259@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Sep 21 10:00:18 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R6Hj7-0004tb-DN for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:00:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1R6Hj0-0006Ef-Bb; Wed, 21 Sep 2011 03:00:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1R6Hiz-0006ES-5W for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 21 Sep 2011 03:00:09 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1R6Hix-0007Iu-Gf for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 21 Sep 2011 03:00:09 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1R6Hiv-0002jt-Jn for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:00:05 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R6Hiu-0004pp-Hj for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:00:04 +0200 Original-Received: from 2505ds5-by.0.fullrate.dk ([95.166.24.143]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:00:04 +0200 Original-Received: from asjo by 2505ds5-by.0.fullrate.dk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:00:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 2505ds5-by.0.fullrate.dk Mail-Copies-To: never X-Face: )qY&CseJ?.:=8F#^~GcSA?F=9eu'{KAFfL1C3/A&:nE?PW\i65"ba0NS)97,Q(^@xk}n4Ou rPuR#V8I(J_@~H($[ym:`K_+]*kjvW>xH5jbgLBVFGXY:(#4P>zVBklLbdL&XxL\M)%T}3S/IS9lMJ ^St'=VZBR Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79965 Archived-At: On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:50:58 +0200, Peter wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21 2011, Adam Sjøgren wrote: >>> Did you try it? When I enter "pdftotext %s -", nothing happens >> >> I just entered "evince" at the "Viewer:"-prompt and saw a PDF with >> "Hello world!" in it in the Evince-window that opened. > Indeed, but I wanted it inline as text ... Ah, sorry, I missed the "in-line" part. >> That would be nice. On the other hand, the sender _did_ say that this >> was just some arbitrary octets... > The sender just uses the "attach-file" function in his buggy MUA, and > the MUA does it wrong... :( Yeah, buggy programs suck. Best regards, Adam -- "You make a fair point. Knowing when not to say Adam Sjøgren anything is not something the lazyweb had asjo@koldfront.dk historically been good at."