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UPDATE-MIME
!!!UPDATE-MIME
NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OVERRIDING ORDER
CREATING ENTRIES
DEPENDENCIES
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT
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!!NAME


update-mime - create or update MIME information
!!SYNOPSIS


__update-mime__ [[no parameters]
!!DESCRIPTION


__update-mime__ updates the __/etc/mailcap__ file to
reflect mime information changed by a Debian package during
installation or removal.
!!OVERRIDING ORDER


The order of entries in the ''/etc/mailcap'' file can be
altered by editing the ''/etc/mailcap.order'' file.
Please see the mailcap.order(5) man page for more
information.
!!CREATING ENTRIES


To create entries in the mailcap file, packages need to
create a file in the ''/usr/lib/mime/packages''
directory. In this file goes the verbatim desired mailcap
entries. In addition to the standard mailcap options
(described below) is a new ''priority'' option.
Specifying this will provide for simple ranking of programs
within a given mime type. An animation viewer, for example,
may be able to display a static picture, but probably
wouldn't be the best choice and so would give an option like
''priority'' option is omitted, a value of 5 is
used.


The following are standard options that can be specified in
the mailcap entry. Options are separated by semicolons (;)
but must all be on the same line. Each line should look
like:


mime/type; viewer; option; another=val; etc;
priority=5


Mime types of the form


__Commands__


__view=__


Specifies the program to run to view a file of the given
content-type. Actually, the
This option connot be
omitted.__ When writing an entry that has no viewer, use a
value of ''false'' in this space.


__compose=__


The


__composetyped=__


The


__edit=__


The


__print=__


The


__Modifiers__


These options are modifiers to all the commands specified on
the command line.


__test=__


The


__Note:__ When testing for X by looking at the
''DISPLAY'' environment variable, please use one
of:


test=test -z


Many programs recognize these strings and optimize for
them.


__needsterminal__


The


__copiousoutput__


The


__Content-Type Info__


These options provide additional information about the given
content-type.


__description=__


The


__textualnewlines__


The


__x11-bitmap=__


The


__nametemplate=__


The
!!DEPENDENCIES


Packages that wish to provide MIME access to themselves
should __not__ depend on, recommend, or suggest
__mime-support.__ Instead, they should just put something
like the following in the ''postinst'' and ''postrm''
scripts.


if [[ -x /usr/sbin/update-mime ]; then
update-mime
fi
!!SEE ALSO


mailcap.order(5), RFC-2046, RFC-1524
!!AUTHOR


__update-mime__ was written by Brian White
__
!!COPYRIGHT


__update-mime__ is in the public domain (the only true
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Last edited on Monday, June 3, 2002 6:56:54 pm by "perry"

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