I believe the use of mime attachments of type video is broken and
I would be grateful if others could check this. I am using 95.6i.
By broken I mean this:-
You have a file "foo.mpg". In your .mime.types, you have a line
"video/mpeg mpg". After composing a message, you use "a" to
attach file foo.mpg. It should show this in the attachment menu
as "video/mpeg". It shows it as x-unknown/mpeg. On receipt of
course this can not find the correct "viewer" from your .mailcap
file.
If this is correct and if my understanding of the code is correct,
I understand the error and can fix it. It may have arisen last
year when there was some discussion of type model. TYPEMODEL
has been added to the enum in mime.h. This makes this enum have
9 members yet it is using only 3 bits. TYPEVIDEO is the 9th member,
so it returns 0 not 9. 0 is TYPEOTHER so x-unknown appears. Note
that TYPEMODEL has not been added anywhere else so is not useable.
It becomes useable if you add two very obvious lines to parse.c -
search for TYPE and you find all the others defined - just add
similar for TYPEMODEL. The solution is to use 4 bits for type,
not 3.
Cheers, Brian.
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School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Northern Territory University,
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