On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 07:25:35PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Thomas Dickey dixit:
> 
> >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
> 
> Hrm. But a mailcap file is global, right? Can this not be
> overwritten by a user?

yes (such as $HOME/.mailcap).

I'd use the -trace and -trace-mask options of lynx to see what it's
actually reading from the mailcap/mime.types files, and where it
gets the viewer from.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]>
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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