Re: [Lynx-dev] More config for filetypes

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Juhana Sadeharju wrote:

> Lynx tries to run .bat and .exe files with wine.
> How to get Lynx to view bat and exe files as text and hexdump?
>
> If this has something to do with system's mime types,
> please do provide "what to do?" dialog. I could add text and
> hexdump choises for bat and exe in the Lynx config files.

It might be getting the information from the setting for SUFFIX_ORDER
(see the long comment in lynx.cfg).  For a quick check, you could set
that to NO_BUILTIN.

> I have had serious problems with mime system:
> Certain html files were recognized as gmc (something) files,
> even the files had .html extension. The solution involved
> binary editing of Nautilus exe, because edits of configs in
> 3-4 mime related directories had no effect at all.
> Therefore, any config should happen in Lynx itself.
>
> Juhana
>
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