Re: Viewing .pdf attachments in mutt.

[Russ Pitman <rjp@belle.apana.org.au>]

On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 04:23:55PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Sep 2002 the mental interface of Russ Pitman told:
> 
> > Using mutt in unstable uptodate,kernel 2.4.18 .
> > 
> > I have a supplier who insists on sending me documents as attachments.pdf
> > via his isp's WebMail 2.0. I cannot change that situation.
> > 
> > Tryiny to view the attachment fails,mutt can only ask to view binary.
> > 
> > My .mailcap had 'application/pdf;' set to /usr/bin/xpdf so I installed
> 
> application/pdf; /usr/bin/xpdf %s
>                                ^^
> HTH
> 
> -- 
>   You cannot propel yourself forward by
>   patting yourself on the back.

My typo :-( -- application/pdf; /usr/bin/xpdf '$s'; existed replaced by
	       application/pdf; /usr/local/bin/acroread '%s';  --
	      	
	Both failed(sigh)
Cheers		
-- 
 russ 
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