Re: More Expo notes...

From: Christopher Scott (cscott@table.jps.net)
Date: Thu Aug 12 1999 - 11:24:00 PDT


On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 10:43:43AM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
> Ok, Dan did not quite write "text/html", but with my email client,
> Mutt, I can pipe an attachment into a command which of course is the way
> mutt treats the html included with Dan's email. So, being the command
> guy that I am, I tried piping the html attachment into lynx. Uh, but
> it treated the html file as a file containing a long URL and started
> flashing up funky pages. So, I am wondering, how do you pipe html into
> lynx. Understand I am mostly a command type of guy, who works on my box with
> the most advanced graphics capability being a curses based app. How do
> I get lynx to diplay html that is piped into it?
>

Hello, fellow mutt user.

Here's what I have in my .mailcap file:

text/html; lynx -force_html -dump '%s'; copiousoutput;

Should work fine.

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Christopher Scott | cscott@table.jps.net
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