Re: [Lynx-dev] non-html start URL

[Klaus-Peter Wegge]

But why is the behaviour of lynx different
1- when the url to the pdf is given on command line
2- when the url to the pdf is given in a html-file?

In the first case it tries to use xpdf
in the second case it shows the download menu.
If the problem is with the mailcap file, lynx should at least behave
in the same manner.

Thanks

Klaus

On Sun, 11 Mar 2012, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 06:51:12PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> > Klaus-Peter Wegge dixit:
> >
> > > I'm using lynx as URL viewer in the alpine mailer on debian linux
> >                                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > > xpdf and how to come over it. I'd prefer that lynx simply comes up with
> > > the download menu for the pdf file.
> > > This effect is not specific to a certain lynx version.
> >
> > MIME types. They are broken in all GNU/Linux distributions I
> > encountered to date ? in MirBSD, lynx behaves the way you want.
> >
> > What you can try to do is:
> >
> >   Preferred media type             : [33][(1)__Accept lynx' internal types_]
> >
> > in (O)ptions. Maybe that helps, or I?m misreading what this
> > option should do.
>
> This option was used to solve a couple of problems - one is that if lynx
> tells the server about all of the mime types that its system can deal with,
> then the server chokes on the list.
>
> Actually it's the mailcap file which tells lynx what to do with a file.
>
> > At work, I couldn?t manage to get lynx to use xloadimage
> > (which I?ve specified as XLOADIMAGE_COMMAND) for images,
> > it always uses the system?s apparently-default imagemagick
> > which is a PITA. So, ideas welcome too ;)
>
> perhaps this as well
>
> --
> Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
> http://invisible-island.net
> ftp://invisible-island.net

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