Bug#186209: tetex-bin: xdvi anything.tex launches web browser on file:anything.tex

[Stefan Ulrich <stefan.ulrich@dsl.pipex.com>]

Olivier Cappe <comcap@free.fr> writes:

> Note that, as suggested by Stefan Ulrich, it seems to be a very general
> "feature" of xdvi, I have just observed it on a box running Mandrake 8.2 ("xdvi
> anything.tex" tries to launch netscape whereas "xdvi anything.foo" just
> complains about the file not present).

ACK. The MIME handling has been fixed in xdvik-22.74; I'd suggest
to close this bug as `wontfix', since the changes cannot be
backported to previous versions.

Best,
Stefan