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- I don't know how many of you are using Mime for your mail (other
- than Dan) but I am starting to. So today I modified my mailcap
- to be handle text/x-html messages, and since there was a little
- difficulty I thought I share it with you.
-
- Here is what I added to my mailcap
-
- text/x-html; mime-show-html -f %s; needsterminal
-
- The command mime-show-html is a new script I wrote. It starts
- up the Viola WWW browser (for which I thank the author!) but
- there are some small problems with Viola
-
- 1) It seems that it requires that the file have suffix html
- in order to work
- 2) You can't tell it what file to read from the command line,
- rather you must set an environment variable.
-
- So I wrote this little script:
-
- #!/bin/csh
- # Run the Viola WWW X windows hypertext system for a Mime message
- # I expect caller (metamail) to supply the file to read with -f,
- # and it will be a /tmp file
-
- # Process args
- while ($#argv > 0 && "$1" =~ -*)
- switch ($1)
- case -f:
- shift
- if ($#argv < 1) goto usage
- set TEMP = $1.html
- cp $1 $TEMP
- setenv WWW_HOME $TEMP
- shift
- breaksw
- default:
- goto usage
- breaksw
- endsw
- end
-
- set VIOLA=/usr/local/WWW/Viola
- setenv VIOLA_PATH $VIOLA/apps
- $VIOLA/bin/viola
- rm $TEMP
- exit 0
-
- usage:
- echo "usage: `basename $0` [-f HTML-FILE]"
- exit 1
-
- If you wish to use this script you will need to change the
- setting of VIOLA depending on where you installed it.
-
- Best wishes, and now we can use Mime to send WWW to each
- other more easily.
-
-