Re: Lynx - stop viewing binary files as text
OMG, youre a savior :) Ive been trying to dink with this for a few weeks now, repeatedly askin about it in linux channels on irc, and everyone is like man lynx, and i knew it wasnt something with that.. Heres the line in /etc/mailcap that was causing the error application/*; less '%s'; needsterminal Once again thanks for the great help :) -paul --- Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 12:30:14AM +0200, Paul wrote: Actually its with every single url out there. I have 2 boxex. box1 lynx http://www.linkrox.net/~god-emperor/ss-imdb.zip outputs a cmd stating D)ownload C)ancel box2 lynx http://www.linkrox.net/~god-emperor/ss-imdb.zip outputs /tmp/8t73Df/L977-856TMP.zip may be a binary file. See it anyway? look at your mailcap - it looks as if less is being invoked for the given type. -- Thomas E. Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lynx - stop viewing binary files as text
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 04:27:19PM -0700, Paul wrote: Heres the line in /etc/mailcap that was causing the error application/*; less '%s'; needsterminal That question needs to be removed from the less installation. Why oh why would anyone ever want to install less as the default application handler? -- Jamin W. Collins This is the typical unix way of doing things: you string together lots of very specific tools to accomplish larger tasks. -- Vineet Kumar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lynx - stop viewing binary files as text
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 04:27:19PM -0700, Paul wrote: OMG, youre a savior :) Ive been trying to dink with this for a few weeks now, repeatedly askin about it in linux channels on irc, and everyone is like man lynx, and i knew it wasnt something with that.. Heres the line in /etc/mailcap that was causing the error application/*; less '%s'; needsterminal 'dpkg-reconfigure less' asks whether you want that there or not. There were a fair number of complaints about this behaviour, and it was fixed in version 381-1 in testing/unstable. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lynx - stop viewing binary files as text
On Tue, 27 May 2003, Paul wrote: OMG, youre a savior :) Ive been trying to dink with this for a few weeks now, repeatedly askin about it in linux channels on irc, and everyone is like man lynx, and i knew it wasnt something with that.. Heres the line in /etc/mailcap that was causing the error application/*; less '%s'; needsterminal Once again thanks for the great help :) no problem -- T.E.Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OFF: Re: viewing binary files
Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I often make a script called my.reset that simply echo's ^O (letter o). If this attachment worked right, then you should be able to use it without any problem. Fyi, ^O puts the terminal back into text mode which is the only problem I've ever had after reading a binary. Um... That's not _quite_ correct. Ctrl/O shifts to the primary character set, which is usually the right one. (The escape sequences necessary to change the primary char. set are rather unlikely to appear in a binary file, but they can happen - especially if, for example, the binary was of a program that did a lot of screen manipulation) I always go with outputting esc-c, which resets the terminal (and ends up clearing the screen too; oh well). I think the keyboard HOWTO has all sorts of information like this. (The reason it's so common to need the ^O fix is that to get the terminal to switch to the secondary character set (which starts out on well-behaved terminals as the graphics set) one only needs to send the terminal a ^N; assuming characters are evenly distributed in a binary, it gives a binary file about a one-in-two chance of leaving the screen in a messed-up state). -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OFF: Re: viewing binary files
Justin Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know this is unrelated, but does anyone know how to do the same thing under other Unices? More specifically SunOS/Solaris? Some Unices will have reset themselves. Have a look at the tset man page. You might also be able to use stty sane followed by tput reset. If things are really screwed up, you might need to type ^Jstty sane^J, where ^J is control-J. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OFF: Re: viewing binary files
On 15 Mar 1998, Carey Evans wrote: Justin Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know this is unrelated, but does anyone know how to do the same thing under other Unices? More specifically SunOS/Solaris? Some Unices will have reset themselves. Have a look at the tset man page. You might also be able to use stty sane followed by tput reset. If things are really screwed up, you might need to type ^Jstty sane^J, where ^J is control-J. I often make a script called my.reset that simply echo's ^O (letter o). If this attachment worked right, then you should be able to use it without any problem. Fyi, ^O puts the terminal back into text mode which is the only problem I've ever had after reading a binary. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds #!/bin/sh echo
viewing binary files
hello everyone, someone tries to view a binary file how do you reset the console. This happened on the console. Thank you in advance. -- Paul McDermott The Computer Braille Facility The University of Western Ontario University Community Centre 215 London, Ontario N6A 3K7 Phone: (519) 661-3061 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address: http://www.braille.uwo.ca/~paul -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: viewing binary files
Paul McDermott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hello everyone, someone tries to view a binary file how do you reset the console. This happened on the console. Thank you in advance. Issue command reset. Suonpää... -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: viewing binary files
On 12 Mar, Paul McDermott wrote: hello everyone, someone tries to view a binary file how do you reset the console. This happened on the console. Thank you in advance. Type reset (w/o quotes) on the keyboard without regard for what the screen is showing and hit return. Brian -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OFF: Re: viewing binary files
I know this is unrelated, but does anyone know how to do the same thing under other Unices? More specifically SunOS/Solaris? Thanks, - justin On 12 Mar, Paul McDermott wrote: hello everyone, someone tries to view a binary file how do you reset the console. This happened on the console. Thank you in advance. Type reset (w/o quotes) on the keyboard without regard for what the screen is showing and hit return. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
