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Hi Janina,
On ubuntu it is in a package called mime-support.
The description is as follows:
Description: MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap', and support programs
As these files can be used by all MIME compliant programs, they have been moved into their own package that others can depend
 upon.

Other packages add themselves as viewers/editors/composers/etc by using the provided "update-mime" program.

In addition, the commands "see", "edit", "compose", and "print" will display, alter, create, and print (respectively) any file using a program determined from the entries in the mime.types and mailcap files.

 HTH, Willem


On Mon, 29 May 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

Willem:

The see command is a new one to me, and it's not on my system. What
package provides that? It sounds very useful.

tia

Janina

Linux for blind general discussion writes:
Hi,
It has a -really-quiet option which stop most output.
Also just shut up your screen reader while playing music will work.
If it is speakup, press the right bottom key on your keyboard, the enter key
on the numpad for shut up.
You can also set some config parameter in the mplayer config file in /etc to
keep it quiet.
for printing, just run
print any_file_name
If you have a properly defined mailcap file, things will just work.
You can usually also just run
lp any_file_name
once your printer is configured properly.
Web browsing is the one area where one has problems from the console.
The lynx  browser, that is l y n x, works well for many things, but does not
support modern web pages.
That said, I use it unless I really cannot do otherwise.
The three commands, see, edit and print uses your mailcap file and is quite
powerful.
e.g. if I do
see some_file.doc
it will read a microsoft word document to me.
If I do
see song.wav
It will start playing the music.
FWIW, Willem


On Thu, 25 May 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

Well, Mark peveto here,
I tried mplayer, and yeah, it works, but good heavens how do I get it not to read that screen full of fluff while it plays?


Mark Peveto
Registered Linux user number 600552
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