Kevin Ryde wrote: > Bob Proulx <[email protected]> writes: > > What mail-user-agent are you using where this configuration is > > advantageous? > > It was to make "run-mailcap --action=cat" work on text/plain.
A response that completely avoided answering my question. > > The run-mailcap command is in the mime-support package. Perhaps this > > issue would be better discussed within the mime-support package > > project rather than about coreutils? > > Perhaps, though it seemed to me reasonably clear the cat program could > be sensibly given an entry of the kind described in fact already in the > mailcap(5) man page. mime-support generates a few things of its own > making, but mainly leaves entries to the package containing the program. The 'cat' program is for concatenating files. It isn't a text display program and should not be used as such. Especially not as a system default configuration. (Nor should cat be used to write device drivers in machine code even if one is inclined to do so.) Bob
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