Re: Proposal: new alternatives links
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Eduard Bloch wrote:
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> Back to this issue: looking to the discussion I see that it doesn't make
> much sence to use alternatives for such customisation. Instead, we need
> some kind of magic application, which take the favorite
> from users ~/.mime.types and ~/.mailcap and runs the appropriate
> program. I imagine something like:
>
> autoopen lecture.mp3
> autoopen foobar.html
> autoopen --mime-type text/plain
>
> Did anyone create something like that, or should I invest my time into a
> new project?
Find out what package /etc/mime.types belongs to. display the contents of
that package. Find the single file in that package with the x bit set
(symlinks don't count :-P )
Yes, it already exists ;-)
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