Re: lynx-dev Overriding mime types

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:39:23PM +0100, Danny Ayers wrote:
> 
> >who's rob partington?  i know thomas dickey all right, but that guy??
> 
> A quick search of the list archives shows a lot of posts from Rob Partington
> around 1995-96 time, so I guess he was active in the development then.
> 
> How do you override mime types?

not having been down that way, I spent a few minutes and grep'd through
the source - from src/HTInit.c where most of the MIME stuff is mapped,
I see a pointer to something called "personal_extension_map", which
is read from lynx.cfg:

.h2 GLOBAL_EXTENSION_MAP
.h2 PERSONAL_EXTENSION_MAP
# The global and personal EXTENSION_MAP files allow you to assign extensions
# to MIME types which will override any of the suffix maps in this (lynx.cfg)
# configuration file, or in src/HTInit.c.  See the example mime.types file
# in the samples subdirectory.
#
# Unix:
# ====
#GLOBAL_EXTENSION_MAP:/usr/local/lib/mosaic/mime.types
# VMS:
# ===
#GLOBAL_EXTENSION_MAP:Lynx_Dir:mime.types
#
#       Unix (sought in user's home directory):
#PERSONAL_EXTENSION_MAP:.mime.types
#       VMS (sought in user's sys$login directory):
#PERSONAL_EXTENSION_MAP:mime.types


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