From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 3 11:31:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom0-193.telepath.com [216.14.0.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DCA2437B43E for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 11:31:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 13218 invoked by uid 100); 3 Sep 2000 18:31:39 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14770.39179.779952.698846@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 13:31:39 -0500 (CDT) To: rob Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not XEmacs, after all? In-Reply-To: <39B22B90.C668CF9A@home.com> References: <14769.42910.433715.290489@guru.mired.org> <39B22B90.C668CF9A@home.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG rob writes: > > They both use ~/.mailcap, which is what Netscape uses as well. The > > syntax is "type/subtype;command". Type and subtype are the appropriate > > MIME values. Subtype can be "*" to mean "any of this type". Command > > should include a "%s" that will have the file name of the temporary > > file plugged in. > I always wondered what that file was. I always thought it was some > config file from a mail program that I never used. It odd that I never > looked in it. Rob. That's actually correct. MIME was originally introduced as a mail format, and mailcap files were used by mailers. Web browsers using them was an obvious move.