* MIME type application/octet-stream
@ 1999-07-11 17:33 Graham Todd
1999-07-11 21:19 ` Kai Großjohann
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From: Graham Todd @ 1999-07-11 17:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
Lately people have been sending me WPD word processor documents as
attachments that are encoded with MIME content type
application/octet-stream. Gnus won't allow me to read them by middle
button clicking on the the MIME widget in the mail body and launching
my viewer - instead it asks me where to save the document. This
behaviour is consistent with Pine and VM as well.
However if I read the same mail article in Netscape's mail reader
(with the attachment sent as application/octet-stream) I can click on
the attachment icon and it will launch my viewer.
I have this entry in my ~/.mime-types file:
type=application/wordperfect \
desc="WordPerfect Document" \
exts="wpd,wp6,WPD"
and this in my ~/.mailcap:
application/wordperfect;/usr/local/bin/applixviewer %s
If the article is sent with application/wordperfect encoding
everything works fine in Gnus.
Is Gnus supposed to fall back on the extensions defined in
~/.mime-types if it can't determine how to handle content from the
type/content lines in ~/.mailcap? Is octet-stream some lowest common
denominator encoding that needs more configuration (by the user -
i.e. me) to be handled properly? (perhaps some kind of ~/.mailcap
entry for application/octet-stream or setting a gnus-* variable). Or
is Netscape's behaviour just "non-standard"?
Thanks,
--
Graham Todd
York University, Toronto
http://www.yorku.ca/academics/gtodd
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* Re: MIME type application/octet-stream
1999-07-11 17:33 MIME type application/octet-stream Graham Todd
@ 1999-07-11 21:19 ` Kai Großjohann
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From: Kai Großjohann @ 1999-07-11 21:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
Graham Todd <gtodd@yorku.ca> writes:
> Lately people have been sending me WPD word processor documents as
> attachments that are encoded with MIME content type
> application/octet-stream.
I think Lars has added a command which allows you to enter a content
type and then launches the appropriate viewer. Don't know whether
that's in 0.95 already.
With older Gnusae, you can say `v' on the button, then enter the
viewing command ("applixviewer %s" or something). Please note that
it's supposed to do completion, thus you have to type C-q SPC to enter
SPC.
kai
--
Life is hard and then you die.
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