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Re: Lynx - stop viewing binary files as text



On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 04:27:19PM -0700, Paul wrote:
> OMG, youre a savior :)
> 
> Ive been trying to dink with this for a few weeks now, repeatedly
> askin about it in linux channels on irc, and everyone is like man
> lynx, and i knew it wasnt something with that..  Heres the line in
> /etc/mailcap that was causing the error
> 
> application/*; less '%s'; needsterminal

'dpkg-reconfigure less' asks whether you want that there or not. There
were a fair number of complaints about this behaviour, and it was fixed
in version 381-1 in testing/unstable.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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