multiple mailcap entries

[Klaus Zeitler <kzeitler+usenet@gsm-mailhost.de.lucent.com>]

On my Solaris workstation I use qvpunix to read msword and excel files.
I've used the following entry in my .mailcap file to read msword files
automatically, when I press enter on a msword attachment:

 application/msword; qvpunix -mn %s

This has been working fine. Now I tried to do the same for excel files
and added:

 application/octet-stream; qvpunix -mn %s

But this doesn't work, instead gnus asks me where to save the attachment.
The difference between these to entries seems to be that the variable 
mailcap-mime-data contains (amongst many others) only one entry for
application/msword , but 2 for application/octet-stream:

(("application"
  ("octet-stream"
   (viewer . "qvpunix -mn %s")
   (type . "application/octet-stream"))
  ("msword"
   (viewer . "qvpunix -mn %s")
   (type . "application/msword"))
  ...
  ("octet-stream"
   (viewer . mailcap-save-binary-file)
   (non-viewer . t)
   (type . "application/octet-stream"))
  ...))

and function mailcap-mime-info returns mailcap-save-binary-file as viewer
for "application/octet-stream", i.e. the 2nd entry.

I thought that entries in ~/.mailcap would have highest preference, but it
seems to be the opposite. It seems that I have to modify the variable
mailcap-mime-data instead or do I miss something?

Klaus

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