Subject: View command and Pine

From: mikeh <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 19:31:48 -0500

I'm using Pine with Linux and need to know what utility to use with the 
view command.

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 20:36:12 +0100 (CET)

>I'm using Pine with Linux and need to know what utility to use with the

If you're using a standard LinuX distrib, you'll have mailcap. Check the
following passage for further detail. We've been discussing problems with
several types of attachments here before, e.g. text/html in Netscrap
messages, so you might want to check the archive or deja news, too.

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Here's something from the FAQ (*hint* *hint*):

 image-viewer (in your S(etup) C(onfig))
   This variable names the program to call for displaying parts of a MIME
   message that are of type IMAGE. If your system supports the mailcap
   system, you don't need to set this variable.
          
   If Pine sees a MIME message part tagged as type IMAGE, and Pine's
   image-viewer. configuration variable is set, Pine will attempt to send
   that attachment to the named image viewing program. In the case of UNIX
   Pine, the DISPLAY environment variable is checked to see if an X-terminal
   is being used (which can handle the images). If the image-viewer variable
   is not set, Pine uses the mailcap system to determine what to do with
   IMAGE types, just as it does for any other non-TEXT type, e.g. type
   APPLICATION. For MIME's generic "catch all" type,
   APPLICATION/OCTET-STREAM, the mailcap file will probably not specify any
   action, but Pine users may always Save any MIME attachment to a file.
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Be sure to check the man pages for all that (mime, mailcap etc.) and take a
look at the tech-notes for pine. These things _can_ be kinda complicated ;-)
   
Cheers,
Robin

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   Robin S. Socha	 Political Science Dept.	Tel: +49(0228)22217-8
   Bonner Talweg 56	 Bonn University		Fax: +49(0228)22217-9
   53113 Bonn		 email: [email-masked]
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       On the package it said: "Requires MS Windows 3.11 or better"  
	       			      ...  so I got myself Linux. 
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