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- Path: cup.portal.com!Harv
- From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Amosaic won't show external pictures
- Date: 11 Jan 1996 18:20:10 -0800
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Sender: pccop@unix.portal.com
- Message-ID: <149574@cup.portal.com>
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- >GRRR! I can't get any version of AMosaic to show external picture files.
- >The file comes in, Mosaic indicates "spawning external viewer", and nothing
- >happens!. I've tried with AMosaic 1.2 and all three prereleases of 2.0 - same
- >story.
- >
- >Snoopdos show Multiview being called allright. I know the datatypes are set
- >up oka, because Multiview called manually has no trouble displaying GIFs or
- >JPEGs.
- >
- >I've also tried calling Mosaic Shunt in the mailcap, but STILL no eternal
- >picture viewing.
- >
- >This has gotta be something really simple/obvious. Sound familiar to
- >anyone?
-
- I use ViewTek to view external GIFs and FastJPEG to view external
- JPEGS. Here's how it's done...
-
- In your env & envarc:mosaic/ directory is a file called .mailcap
-
- create or modify two lines so they look like this (assuming you have
- Viewtek named "vt" and FastJPEG named as "fjpeg_aga" on a drive named
- "work".. if not.. modify to suit you system...)
-
- image/jpeg; work:fjpeg_aga %s PUBSCREEN=Mosaic
- image/*; work:vt %s PUBSCREEN=Mosaic
-
- If AMosaic sees a JPEG file it tosses it to FJPEG. If it sees any
- other kind of graphics file ("*") it throws it to ViewTek.
-
- Works for me.
-
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