Re: [Gnumed-devel] update mailcap file.

[Sebastian Hilbert]

On Saturday 09 September 2006 16:18, Syan Tan wrote:
> regarding the document browser ,
> I get the error
>
> displaying page
> ---------------
> Cannot display document part:
> Unable to start viewer on file
> [/tmp/tmp1_uevn]
> You need to update your mailcap file.
>
> Please consult the error log for all the gory details !
>
> Where is this mailcap file?
$HOME/.mailcap 

http://linux.about.com/cs/linux101/g/mailcap.htm

> How do I update the mailcap file to recognize bmp files as needing to be

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-mailcap.html
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-10694/docs/mailcap
http://rucus.ru.ac.za/docs/mutt/manual83.html

> opened by gimp?
Do you really want to use the gimp ?
Why not use some randomly available small viewer

In future releases the cocept might need refinement to associate different 
programs to the same mime-type depending on the context
-- 
Sebastian Hilbert 
Leipzig / Germany
[www.gnumed.de]  -> PGP welcome, HTML ->/dev/null