Re: MIME support

["Brian C. White" <bcwhite@verisim.com>]

> >> It would also be (very) nice if install-info produced a mailcap
> >> file that works under both X and the console. Packages could then
> >> register themselves as supporting type image/gif (say) under X or
> >> the console or both.
> >
> > That would be much more difficult.  I don't see how, as a plain
> > file, "mailcap" could differentiate.
> 
> There exists a 'test' clause in the mailcap syntax. To my knowledg
> only NCSA Mosaic does not implement it (Look at the mailcap example
> from Lynx!),  but that can be handled if the X11 entries come first!

Hey, that's even better!  I'd written a program that would call different
programs based on the context under which it ran, but this would be a
better solution.

By the way, does anybody know if comments ("# comment") are allowed at
the end of of the lines?

                                        Brian
                               ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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