Subject: Re: Mailcap question

From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 17:10:04 +0000 (GMT)

Hmmmm.....  no further suggestions immediately spring to mind, I'm
afraid: our Pine seems quite happy with the following mailcap entry:

text/html; /usr/local/bin/netscape %s; \
        description="HTML document"

If I think of anything I'll let you know.

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Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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On Tue, 12 Nov 1996 [email-masked] wrote:

> Yes, I do have Netscape already running. And I verified that the
> -remote option works by typing the following on my Unix command line:
> netscape -remote 'openFile(/home/vikas/index.html)'
> 
> This indeed 'raised' my Netscape window to the top and displayed
> that HTML file there.
> 
> Any clues,
> --Vikas
> 
> 
> On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Mike Brudenell wrote:
> 
> > Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 15:57:13 +0000 (GMT)
> > From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
> > Subject: Re: Mailcap question
> > 
> > Do you already have Netscape Navigator running?
> > 
> > (I have heard that the -remote option only affects an already running
> > Navigator: it will not start one if there isn't one already running.)
> > 
> > I haven't replied to the entire list/newsgroup as I don't know for certain
> > if the above snippet of information is true or not.  If you find it is,
> > then you might like to post a message about it yourself.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > -- 
> > Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
>

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 13:43:20 -0500 (EST)

Yes, I am sure that what you have will work even for me.

But the point is that
I ****DONT**** want to start of another invocation of netscape 
whenever I view a HTML attachment. **HENCE** the netscape -remote
option....

Sorry for shouting. But I just got a response back from
David [email-masked], one of the authors of Pine and his
suggestion was 'Save the attachment to a file and 
then do netscape -remote 'openFile(<filename>)' !!!!
Sheesh... I knew that.. 

I think this is a simple bug in Pine that is being overlooked.

Thanks for your help,
--Vikas

On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Mike Brudenell wrote:

> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 17:10:04 +0000 (GMT)
> Cc: Pine Info Mailing List <[email-masked]>