From: pmlists@free.fr (Peter Münster)
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: viewing `application/octet-stream' MIME parts
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:50:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y5xixrj1.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vcsmzwgi.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk>
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 ...
> 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... :(
But anyway, I can always filter the arbitrary octets through a command
in my mailcap entry.
So my opinion is still: "RET" for viewing the MIME part using the
mailcap and "o" for saving it, and no exception for
application/octet-stream.
--
Peter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-21 7:50 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
2011-09-21 7:50 ` Peter Münster [this message]
2011-09-21 7:59 ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-09-20 23:05 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
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