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RUN-MAILCAP !!!RUN-MAILCAP NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION SEE ALSO AUTHOR COPYRIGHT ---- !!NAME run-mailcap, see, edit, compose, print - execute programs via entries in the ''mailcap'' file !!SYNOPSIS __run-mailcap__ --action= __ The __see__, __edit__, __compose__ and __print__ versions are just aliases that default to the view, edit, compose, and print actions (respectively). You can make this your default pager and/or editor by adding the following to your shell startup: shell file line(s) to add ~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ sh ~/.profile PAGER=/usr/bin/see; export PAGER EDITOR=/usr/bin/edit; export EDITOR csh ~/.login setenv PAGER /usr/bin/see setenv EDITOR /usr/bin/edit !!DESCRIPTION __run-mailcap__ (or any of its aliases) will use the given action to process each mime-type/file in turn. Each file is is specified as its mime-type, its encoding (eg. compression), and filename together, separated by colons. If the mime-type is omitted, an attempt to determine the type is made by trying to match the file's extension with those in the ''mime.types'' files. If the encoding is omitted, it will also be determined from the file's extensions. Currently supported encodings are __gzip__ (.gz) and __compress__ (.Z). A filename of __must__ be specied. Both the user's files (~/.mailcap; ~/.mime.types) and the system files (/etc/mailcap; /etc/mime.types) are searched in turn for information. __OPTIONS__ All options are in the form -- __--action=__ Performs the specified action on the files. Valid actions are ''view'', ''compose'', ''composetyped'', ''edit'' and ''print''. If no action is specified, the action will be determined by how the program was called. __--debug=__ Turns on extra information to find out what is happening. Any value other than zero (0) will turn on debugging output. !!SEE ALSO update-mime(8) !!AUTHOR __run-mailcap__ (and its aliases) was written by Brian White __ !!COPYRIGHT __run-mailcap__ (and its aliases) is in the public domain (the only true __ ----
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