From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79961 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 00:21:33 +0200 Organization: koldfront - analysis & revolution, Copenhagen, Denmark Message-ID: <87vcsmzwgi.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> References: <871uvbdlm9.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh> <877h530y2b.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <877h52divu.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 1316557342 6166 80.91.229.12 (20 Sep 2011 22:22:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:22:22 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28255@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Sep 21 00:22:17 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 1R68hk-0005DP-LW for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:22:16 +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 1R68hL-0003a2-U1; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:21:51 -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 1R68hK-0003Zt-QA for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:21:50 -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 1R68hI-0005dv-Tm for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:21:50 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1R68hG-0004qI-2N for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:21:46 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R68hF-00051Q-AM for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:21:45 +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 00:21:45 +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 00:21:45 +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-Now-Playing: Put A Little Love In Your Heart, Theme Time Radio Hour - 50 (2) - Spring Cleaning (Jackie DeShannon) 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:79961 Archived-At: 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."