Re: Re: how do I set the program for viewing HTML attachment?

Matt Ackeret <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.pine.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Ross wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Patrick J. Collins wrote:
>> I am running unix pine locally on my Macintosh computer, running OS X
>> 10.4.8
>
> According to the release notes I possess for Pine v4.64:
> -snip-
> Version 4.60 was an evolutionary release which introduced some
> new functionality.
>
> Additions included:
> ...
> In Mac OS X, view and send attachments and URLs according to
> how the system defines handling them, without relying on the
> existence of a mailcap or mime.types file
> -snip-
>
> I do not know Mac OS X, but Pine says Mac OS X should be configured to handle
> the html attachments. What is the Mac OS X configured for, concerning any
> application software like Pine, handing an attachment off for display?  It
> seems Pine is not the controlling party for this, Mac OS X is.

I don't have the original message in this thread anymore.. but if you're
trying to set a GUI app to open the html file, you could presumably:

1) make a .html file
2) get info on it in the Finder
3) Change the "Open With" popup to FireFox 
4) click on the "Change All" button
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