On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:09:09 -0600, Kyle Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It depends on your mailcap lines. If your mailcap line is this: > > image/*; xv > > Then what will happen is the equivalent of this: > > cat /tmp/imagefile | xv > > However, if your mailcap line is this: > > image/*; xv %s > > Then xv will be passed the file name as an argument; and this will > happen: > > xv /tmp/imagefile > > Make sense? Absolutely, thank you. I was missing the "%s" escapes in my mailcap file. Now the real mystery is how it could work until a few days ago. Something must have messed /etc/mailcap, I suspect. -- ~> cat /etc/redhat-release && uname -a Scientific Linux SL release 5.2 (Boron) Linux acerrimo.local 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5 #1 SMP Wed Nov 12 06:49:06 EST 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
