Re: mailcap/slrn question
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Christopher Mosley wrote:
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> On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Dale Morris wrote:
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> > Does anyone have a working mailcap file that will display images from
> > newsgroups in slrn? I can get mutt to display images using ee, but I've
> > never been able to get slrn to display an image in a binary newsgroup. I
> > always have to use Netscape News for binaries and slrn for regular text
> > messages. I'd like to have slrn do everything.
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> No, not working for your particular need.
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> I once used .mailcap for displaying images files localy from a remote tin.
> I could remember how to do it again, but I remember it being very ungainly.
> I replaced that with a c program. Finally I used a script filter. You use
> the write to stdin and filter through key, "|" in tin. Must be something
> similar in slrn. Uudeview is a smart decoder for both mime 7 bit encoding
> (forgot its name right now) and uuencoded files - very
> useful for viewing those fine arts newsgroups. The apc vt320
> escape sequence and kermit are not needed . They would both just
> be a viewing command for you - display probably. At one time I used an
> echo and read so you could choose the viewer on the fly, mtvp fo mpegs
> for instance. This was a pain because I got a raw terminal and had to
> change it and change it back. But what you are trying to do should be very
> accomplishable.
I just checked out slrn and it does indeed use "|" for the pipe command.
The below script will work when adjusted for directories, and
with the kermit and apc_echo removed and a display line added.
John Davis anwered the same question with a slang script, you
can it find by searching deja news. Since a scripting language
is imbedded in slrn there seems no reason not to use it for this
It is a stacked based kind of C looking language.
The big problem with trying to use mailcap (metamail) is what do you for
bases64 files and uuencoded files without mime headers.
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> #!/usr/bin/sh
> cat > $HOME/News/See/Tmp
> uudeview -i -d -p $HOME/News/See $HOME/News/See/Tmp
> rm $HOME/News/See/Tmp
> Image=`ls $HOME/News/See/`
> kermit -s $HOME/News/See/$Image
> apc_echo "run display $Image, output \13"
> rm $HOME/News/See/*
> #not done
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> The problem is the the uudecoding , for instance in lynx
> without the decoding it becomes much easier and practical to use metamail.
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> .mailcap
> image/*; putz %s ;needsterminal
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> #!/bin/sh
> kermit -s $*
> PICTURE=`basename $*`
> apc_echo "run display $PICTURE"
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> > "Make voyages, attempt them, there's nothing else."
> > --Tennessee Williams
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