Re: How to make Netscape use Debian mailcap ?
In article <[🔎] 19990219174659.A20297@cip01.physik.uni-freiburg.de>,
Lars Steinke <steinke@uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
>does anybody know why Netscape does not use /etc/mailcap and
>/etc/mimetypes ? It is rather annoying that Netscape won't startup
>gv for .ps files even though we have such a nice mime-type
>definition for every package.
That's simply an example of Netscape's "broken" (imho) approach to
things. It manages it's own MIME database under Windows, so it can do
it under UNIX too, dammit....
I did write a plug-in (based on plugger) to make it read /etc/mailcap
and /etc/mime.types although I wasn't happy with it, and I haven't
worked on it for a while. I can put the source up for download if
anyone else is interested- I recommend looking at the plugger source
too, and probably reading the Netscape Plugin SDK documentation (which
I haven't done...)
SRH
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