Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 11:31:08 -0500 From: stan <stanb@awod.com> To: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: mailcap syntax question Message-ID: <20020208163108.GD8193@teddy.fas.com> In-Reply-To: <20020208154111.GD19456@roman.mobil.cz> References: <20020208151512.GA6785@teddy.fas.com> <20020208154111.GD19456@roman.mobil.cz>
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On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 04:41:11PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 10:15:12 -0500 > > From: stan <stanb@awod.com> > > To: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > > Subject: mailcap syntax question > > > > I'm trying to set up /usr/local/etc/mailcap such that mutt can display > > excel spreadsheets corectly. Gnumeric does a nice jobe of this, but I seem > > to be having a hard time getting it to work via mailcap. > > > > Here is what I'v tried, what am I doing wrong? > > > > applica/vnd.ms-exc; /usr/X11R6/bin/gnumeric '%s'; ... > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > don't trust mutt what it tells you about the mime type. it *trims* > the string according to a variable whose name I can't recall ATM. > it's probably application/vnd.ms-excel > > you will prolly want to look in /usr/local/etc/mime.types in the future > > btw, doesn't the mutt manual explicitly tell you to *not* put the %s > expando in single quotes? (I might be confusing this with urlview) Thanks, indeed, that fixd the problem. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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