Re: manpage of texdoc

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 24.11.03 Hilmar Preusse (hille42@web.de) wrote:

> This is not more true after the last bugfixes. texdoc from now on
> uses mime-support to determine, which viewer should be started. C.M.
> Connelly, will you fix that?
> 
Patch attached.

H. 
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--- texdoc.man.orig	Wed Sep 11 17:58:28 2002
+++ texdoc.man	Thu Dec 11 13:56:49 2003
@@ -36,14 +36,13 @@
 DVI viewer\&.  Defaults to \fBxdvi\fP(1)\&.
 .IP 
 .IP "\fB$TEXDOCVIEW_pdf\fP" 
-PDF viewer\&.  Defaults to \fBacroread\fP(1)\&.
+PDF viewer\&.
 .IP 
 .IP "\fB$TEXDOCVIEW_ps\fP" 
-PostScript viewer\&.  Defaults to
-\fBghostview\fP(1)\&.
+PostScript viewer\&.
 .IP 
 .IP "\fB$TEXDOCVIEW_html\fP" 
-HTML viewer\&.  Defaults to \fBnetscape\fP(1)\&.
+HTML viewer\&.
 .IP 
 .IP "\fB$TEXDOCVIEW_txt\fP" 
 Text viewer\&.  Defaults to \fB$PAGER-more\fP\&.
@@ -61,6 +60,11 @@
 hostname$ TEXDOCVIEW_html="mozilla %s"
 .PP 
 hostname$ export TEXDOCVIEW_html
+.RE 
+.PP 
+\fBDebian-speciality\fP: as of tetex-2.0.2-4.3 texdoc is patched and uses
+the mime-support package to determine the appropriate viewer for the respective
+file type except for \fIdvi\fP and \fItxt\fP.
 .RE 
 .PP 
 .SH "FILES"