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Re: Proposal: new alternatives links



On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Mike Fedyk wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 08:09:00PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > > 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 ;-)
> > 
> 
> /usr/bin/run-mailcap
> /usr/bin/see
> /usr/bin/edit
> /usr/bin/compose
> /usr/bin/print

I *did* say "symlinks don't count".

only run-mailcap is a file; the rest are all symlinks ;-)

> BTW, I'm running sid.

Me too

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