From: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren)
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: viewing `application/octet-stream' MIME parts
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:21:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vcsmzwgi.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877h52divu.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh>
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:05:41 +0200, Peter wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20 2011, Adam Sjøgren wrote:
>> I usually use "View interactively (v)" and tell Gnus what viewer to
>> use,
> 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.
>> or use "View as type (t)", where Gnus often guesses the type
>> correctly.
> Indeed, this works. But IMO, Gnus should use the mailcap entry for
> application/octet-stream just the same way as any other entry.
That would be nice. On the other hand, the sender _did_ say that this
was just some arbitrary octets...
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."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-20 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-20 20:06 Peter Münster
2011-09-20 20:16 ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-09-20 21:05 ` Peter Münster
2011-09-20 22:21 ` Adam Sjøgren [this message]
2011-09-21 7:50 ` Peter Münster
2011-09-21 7:59 ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-09-20 23:05 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
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