Re: links does not properly display html in pine

"Sergey V. Karpov" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.links.list
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi!

> I tried to use links as the html viewer in my pine email program. I worked
> on a solaris machine.
>
> I put the .mailcap file under my home directory, it has one line as:
>
> text/html; /cse/grads/yanggz/bin/links  %s; needsterminal

You need to use "links -force-html %s" here. Thats just because links
determines local file type by its extension, and pine doesn't preserve it
when making its temporary files. This options exists since links0.97 and
in all links2 versions

Thanks,

Sergey

> Also, I put a .mime.types file which define that html and htm all are
> text/html type.
>
> The problem is that when I try to lauch links to view some
> html attachment, it does not display it properly, it instead
> shows all html tags just as show a plain text file. In other
> words, it does not render anyting.
>
> But if I store those html file first, then use links to display
> them, the display is right.
>
> Thank you very much for any help.
>
> Long
>
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