[16888] in Athena Bugs
htmlview can't launch netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin F. McKinney)
Sat Jun 12 23:59:00 1999
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 23:58:52 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199906130358.XAA24466@all-night-tool.mit.edu>
From: "Martin F. McKinney" <mount@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: mount@MIT.EDU
Hello,
The 'htmlview' command (infoagents locker) does not launch netscape
when it should. I looked at the htmlview script and found the following:
To look for netscape, the script looks in the browser directory for
executables that start with "Mozilla":
# Start netscape, the more popular browser, if available on this platform.
case "`echo $browserbin/Mozilla*`" in
$browserbin/'Mozilla*') ;;
*)
# Try to run netscape; exit if successful
$browserbin/netscape "$url" && exit 0
echo "$0: Could not run netscape. Will try Mosaic." >&2
;;
esac
There are no executables that begin with "Mozilla" in the
browser directory, however there are several versions of Netscape.
I found this error because I'm trying to use metamail (mime
locker) with mh-e and rmail in emacs. After sourcing
/mit/mime/share/setup.csh, the MAILCAP environment variable is set to
/mit/mime/arch/@sys/etc/mailcap. This file assigns the text/html
mime-type to the htmlview command, which, in turn, coughs when I
encounter that mime-type in the mail.
Please let me know if 'htmlview' is currently supported of if there is
a better way (than metamail) to read MIME encoded documents from the
emacs mail reader.
Thanks.
-Martin
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