Re: MIME support
On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, Brian C. White wrote:
> > 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?
I don't think they are allowed. But there is a note directive that acts
like a comment in mailcap entries. Meaning you can write something like
text/plain; cat %s; note=This string will be ignored; test=test -z $DISPLAY
and the note=foo; bit will... be ignored. At least, that's what the mailcap
manpage says.
Christian
PS When the update update-mailcap script is released, wouldn't it be useful
to have it put the name of the Debian package on which a mailcap entry
depends in the 'notes' directive?
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