"Stephen A. Witt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using Pine 4.05 on a Debian 2.0 platform at work. MS Office is the > standard desktop automation application around here except for a small > band of Unix enthusiasts. I've just installed Star Office, mostly so I > can read the MS Word documents everybody sends me. I'm trying to > reconfigure Pine so that it will automatically start up swriter3 for a > attachment type of DOC. I thought the way to do that was to change > /etc/mime.types, which I did. I modified the line that specified msword > as the application for doc and dot files to be swriter3, but Pine still > thinks its an MSWORD application. I also looked in the /etc/mailcap file > but didn't find any mention of msword in there. I've looked on the > Pine Info site and it mentions this and states that one should > change the /etc/mime.types file. Anybody have any experience with this? > > Thanks...
Changing the /etc/mime.types changes what type will be associated to a given file, but it doesn't say how to handle it. That's what /etc/mailcap is for. I can only assume that the pine info site assumes one already has pine configured to handle "swriter3"-type documents. In any case, changing /etc/mime.types won't help much for those attachments which are sent to you already labeled with a type. (really, most attachments should come with a content-type header). What you should to do is change /etc/mailcap to tell pine how to open ms-word files, and change /etc/mime.types _back_ to saying application/msword for doc files. To change /etc/mailcap, add the following (all as one long line) to the end: application/msword; swriter3 %s; test=test "$DISPLAY" != ""; description=M$ Word document; nametemplate=%s.doc Since it appears that you're getting documents labeled with the type application/MSWORD you may also want to add: application/MSWORD; swriter3 %s; test=test "$DISPLAY" != ""; description=M$ Word document; nametemplate=%s.doc to /etc/mailcap as well; I don't know if mime types are case sensitive.
