[Alpine-info] Using mailcap to open RPM packages

[Dag Wieers]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Dag Wieers wrote:


> I often get send SRPM packages that I need files from. That is why I was 

> looking to open mc with it directly from pine. Normally this should work:

>

> 	mc "%s#rpm"

>

> so I added this to my ~/.mailcap file:

>

> 	application/x-rpm; mc "%s#r

>

> However, this does not work from Alpine, I get garbage on screen like this:

>

> 	Cannot get terminal settings: Inappropriate ioctl for device (25)

> 	?[?1049h?[1;24r?[4l?[24;1H?[m?[37m?[40m?[m?[39;49m

>

>

> 	         ?[?1049l


Ok, I found the solution for this and maybe this is useful to someone 
else. My user ~/.mailcap file now looks like this:

 	-----
 	### antiword
 	application/msword; antiword -t %s; copiousoutput

 	### cat
 	application/pgp-signature; cat %s; copiousoutput

 	### cdiff (needs coloroutput)
 	text/x-diff; cdiff %s; needsterminal
 	text/x-patch; cdiff %s; needsterminal

 	### elinks (needs input)
 	application/xhtml+xml; /usr/bin/elinks -force-html %s; needsterminal
 	text/html; /usr/bin/elinks -force-html %s; needsterminal

 	### mc (needs input)
 	application/x-7zip; /usr/bin/mc %s#u7z; needsterminal
 	application/x-bzip2; /usr/bin/mc %s#utar; needsterminal
 	application/x-gzip; /usr/bin/mc %s#utar; needsterminal
 	application/x-patch; /usr/bin/mc %s#patchfs; needsterminal
 	application/x-rpm; /usr/bin/mc %s#rpm/CONTENTS.cpio#ucpio; needsterminal
 	application/x-tar; /usr/bin/mc %s#utar; needsterminal
 	application/zip; /usr/bin/mc %s#zip; needsterminal
 	-----

and it proved to be already immensly useful for handling eg. HTML email 
and RPM packages as attachments. Since I am working on a remote system I 
prefer not to open X applications.

Kind regards,
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