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ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

> Paul Stevenson <p.stevenson@surrey.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > I've just upgraded to latest CVS and I notice that when I attach a
> > file and am prompted for the Content-Type, then press tab to see the
> > list of known types, there are a few bogus entries (mangled duplicates
> > of postscript and pdf)
> 
> Those entries come from mailcap-mime-data, mailcap-mime-extensions,
> mailcap files and mime-types files.  What does evaluating
> (mailcap-mime-types) say?

ah.  Yes, they come from the mailcap entries put there by netscape
(mailcap-mime-types) gives:
("desc=\"postscript" "type=application/postscript" "desc=\"portable"
"type=application/pdf" ... )

Does this reflect incorrect parsing of the mailcap file, or is gnus
doing the right thing?

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