On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > The mime.types file associates a mime type with one or more > filename extensions, such as rm, ra, ram, etc. Probably those > will not need editing. The mailcap file associates a command with > each of the mime types. The command will be "trplayer %s" where > the %s stands for the filename that trplayer will play. I believe > the sample mailcap file uses freeamp to play some things, and > trplayer to play others, and so you may want to look those lines > over and make sure that you do not try to run a program that you > do not have on your system. Just as an addition, is there anything to be gained by adding an & to the end of the command, so that control is returned to Lynx, and if so, how do you then stop the player wwithout manually killing the process? > If you get them right, you can just press enter in Lynx on those > audio stream urls and away you go. Yes, and in addition if you configure it correctly, you should be able to play audio attachments right out of your email program, I know that Pine supports this - it was the Pine team that developed MIME. Cheers. -- Toby Fisher Email: toby at g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
