Re: Using Pine with messages sent in http hmm. I think you're right..I mean about lynx not reading from standard
input. it would (more or less) explain what happens on this machine when I
try to pipe it. (nothing explains what happens on the last machine, except
perhaps the fact that it was held together by duct tape, bailing wire and
velcro)

Time to fire up vi and write a script.

-force_html looks useful too. I don't know why I havne't seen it before.

Vinnie

On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, John Heenan wrote:

> Thanks for your reply Vinnie.  
> 
> I have been able to add an /etc/mailcap entry for text/HTML to enable HTML
> to be shown.  Part of my original problem was that text/plain was not even
> being displayed.  This problem has been fixed up also. It appears http
> emailers also send a plain version of http. 
> 
> An /etc/mailcap entry that worked for me is
> text/HTML; lynx -force_html -dump %s; copiousoutput
> 
> With regard to piping the output to Lynx, I don't think there is a way
> within Lynx for it to accept a html file to be proceesed from standard
> input.  However piping the output to a script could set up a file for lynx
> to read from and then send output to standard output for the viewer. 
> 
> John
> 
> 
> On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Drachen wrote:
> 
> > 
> > It's seemed to me that one could pipe it through lynx (that only works for
> > un*x systems, though). But my computer has been loathe to do that. 
> > 
> > However, that was my old one, my new one seems to handle viewers and such
> > much better. Maybe I should try it again. (better hardware, more current
> > version of linux and pine, etc)
> > 
> > anyway, said commands would be V(iew)(highlight the appropriate
> > attatchment) | lynx
> > 
> > oh, and you have to set that in the configuration.
> > 
> > I don't know if this will work, though. it just should theoretically
> > 
> > Vinnie
> > 
> > On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, John Heenan wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > I get email sent to me written in http.  To read it I save the file
> > > attachments and then read the message surrounded by http.  I couldn't find
> > > a way of setting up mime types to cater for this.  
> > > 
> > > Is there a quick way to instruct the Pine viewer to display messages it
> > > does not know how to deal with, or is there a way to instruct pine to use
> > > another viewer on command, like lynx?
> > > 
> > > Regards
> > > 
> > > John Heenan
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 


