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Re: mkmailcaps script

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Mon Jan 10 13:01:17 2000

To: "t. belton" <tbelton@mit.edu>
Cc: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@mit.edu>, bug-infoagents@mit.edu
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 10 Jan 2000 13:01:10 -0500
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<tbelton@MIT.EDU> (t. belton) writes:

> curious, though - how would you go about making a mailcap that *doesn't*
> assume a certain number of pre-attached paths? The format doesn't really

One approach is to rely on /bin/athena/attachandrun, which the current
Athena releases based on Solaris, IRIX, Linux, and NetBSD all have; I
don't know if that's what Jacob had in mind, though.

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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)

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