Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 10:41:25 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@iaces.com> To: proot@iaces.com (Paul T. Root) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG (Questions FreeBSD) Subject: Re: elm Message-ID: <199909211541.KAA17475@iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <199909211411.JAA14204@iaces.com> from "Paul T. Root" at Sep 21, 1999 09:11:14 AM
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In a previous message, Paul T. Root said: > > Hi all, > I have a couple of questions on elm. I was using elm2.4ME+ PL32 > and just upgraded to PL49 because it won't start xv (or anything else) > for image/jpeg or image/gif files. I'm running the same code on solaris > boxes and can freely change from xv to gimp in my $HOME/.mailcap file > and things just work fine. This is the error: > > [image/jpeg is not supported, skipping...] > [Use 'v' to view or save this part.] > > > It correctly identifies a *.jpg, *.jpeg, *.gif, etc. as image/jpeg > or image/gif. So /usr/local/lib/elm.mimetypes is working correctly. And I > have: > image/*; xv %s > image/jpeg; xv %s > > in my $HOME/.mailcap. > > Any ideas. > > Also, I just downloaded Elm 2.5.2. Is there a reason that 2.4ME+ is better > than 2.5 or just that it hasn't made it into ports yet. Well, I went ahead and complied 2.5 PL2 and it works as I want it. > Please don't say "Use pine|netscape|mh|xmh|outlook|whatever, it's better". > I've tried many many many mailers, and after a week or two or three, I go > back to elm. It's how I do mail. > > Thanks, > Paul. > > > -- > "I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem." > -- Ashleigh Brilliant > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- First Job of Government: Protect people from govermment. Second Job of Government: Protect people from each other. It must *never* become the job of government to protect people from themselves! -- Robert P. Kuthe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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