On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:01, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> Although evince will do
> that, acroread is the adobe reader application.
You missed the point I was trying to make, completely.
Please, re-read my message. It has been answered already anyway.
But thanks for your response.
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On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 17:56 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> I found myself on a command line window, wanting to open a PDF, and I
> didnt remember the name of the pdf reader that now comes as a default
> install for Fedora. Too many years of "just installing Acrobat" left
> me with "./acroread wha
Am 14.04.2012 13:43, schrieb Antonio.montagnani:
> I was suggesting that if either the browser or
> the server does not know how to play nice,
> the user might want to make a firm suggestion.
> I've occasionally been annoyed by a text, not .txt,
> file mime-typed application/binary or some such.
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Subject: Re: Perhaps this exists already, and if not, it should...
From: Michael Hennebry
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On Sat, 14 Apr 2012, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 14.04.2012 00:07, schrieb Michael Henne
On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 17:59 -0300, "Germán A. Racca" wrote:
> gnome-open? xdg-open?
In true lazy-ix-typist fashion, I made an alias of the word "go" to the
"gnome-open" command, long ago. Nothing on my system was already using
"go" as a command. One could do the same for "xo".
# cat /etc/bashr
On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 17:19 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> Of course this is why Internet Explorer works correctly
> so much more often than Firefox, because 99.997% of all
> web servers are misconfigured and send the wrong mime
> type for half the files :-).
Ironically, it's problems stem from MSIE
On Sat, 14 Apr 2012, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 14.04.2012 00:07, schrieb Michael Hennebry:
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 17:19:23 -0400,
You mean incorrectly. Like when I tried to provide links to html source
using a text/plain mimetype and internet explore
Am 14.04.2012 00:07, schrieb Michael Hennebry:
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2012, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 17:19:23 -0400,
>> You mean incorrectly. Like when I tried to provide links to html source
>> using a text/plain mimetype and internet explorer disregarded this and
>> treate
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 17:19:23 -0400,
You mean incorrectly. Like when I tried to provide links to html source
using a text/plain mimetype and internet explorer disregarded this and
treated the pages as html instead based on the URL ending in .html.
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 18:13, Richard Shaw wrote:
>
> Well "open" is already taken :)
>
> Try "man open"
I'm happy to report that setting alias open=/usr/bin/xdg-open in
bashrc works wonders.
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On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 17:19:23 -0400,
Tom Horsley wrote:
Of course this is why Internet Explorer works correctly
so much more often than Firefox, because 99.997% of all
web servers are misconfigured and send the wrong mime
type for half the files :-).
You mean incorrectly. Like when I tri
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 18:13, Richard Shaw wrote:
> Well "open" is already taken :)
>
> Try "man open"
OMG, perl, the root of all evil.
It's simple, xdg-open becomes open, and 'open' becomes something
easier for perl devs, like, I don't know, perl-open--MYAML -ne
'$c{$_}++for split//;END{print
> > Microsoft Windows is the only OS relying blindly
> > on a file extension...
>
> You're right.
Of course this is why Internet Explorer works correctly
so much more often than Firefox, because 99.997% of all
web servers are misconfigured and send the wrong mime
type for half the files :-).
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On 04/13/2012 06:07 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 17:59, "Germán A. Racca" wrote:
gnome-open? xdg-open?
Thanks Germán. The question marks are because you're not sure? ;-)
Or because you're implying "sheesh, how doesn't he know?". INQminds
want to know. ;-)
Hi Fernando:
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 17:59, Richard Shaw wrote:
>> I haven't tried using this directly but I would think it would do what you
>> need:
>> $ xdg-open --help
>> xdg-open -- opens a file or URL in the user's preferred
>> application
>
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 17:59, Richard Shaw wrote:
> I haven't tried using this directly but I would think it would do what you
> need:
> $ xdg-open --help
> xdg-open -- opens a file or URL in the user's preferred
> application
Worked like a charm. Now, see how linux devs shoot themselves in
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 17:59, "Germán A. Racca" wrote:
> gnome-open? xdg-open?
Thanks Germán. The question marks are because you're not sure? ;-)
Or because you're implying "sheesh, how doesn't he know?". INQminds
want to know. ;-)
*joke*.
I appreciate your answer.
FC
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On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 18:00, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
> Microsoft Windows is the only OS relying blindly
> on a file extension, really the only OS
You're right. If I remember correncly OS/2 and Amiga also didn't care
about filename extensions, one because of filesystem EAs (Extended
Attributes) a
Am 13.04.2012 22:56, schrieb Fernando Cassia:
> I found myself on a command line window, wanting to open a PDF, and I
> didnt remember the name of the pdf reader that now comes as a default
> install for Fedora. Too many years of "just installing Acrobat" left
> me with "./acroread whatever.pdf"
On 04/13/2012 05:56 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
I found myself on a command line window, wanting to open a PDF, and I
didnt remember the name of the pdf reader that now comes as a default
install for Fedora. Too many years of "just installing Acrobat" left
me with "./acroread whatever.pdf" engrave
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> But that got me thinking. Shouldn't there be a "meta-command" like
> "open filename.whatever" that just seeks the default file association
> in gnome or whatever, and find the app name, and invoke the right app
> without the end user having
I found myself on a command line window, wanting to open a PDF, and I
didnt remember the name of the pdf reader that now comes as a default
install for Fedora. Too many years of "just installing Acrobat" left
me with "./acroread whatever.pdf" engraved into my brain cells.
So.. I had to go to "add/
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