On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 03:05:21AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Has anybody worked out a way to get netscape's mime handling to work > reliably and consistently? I'm getting sick of the following problem, > and I'm sure I can't be alone. > > Currently, every time I click on a link to a plain text file, netscape > downloads the text file and then seems to throw the result away. From > what I've worked out in the past, this seems to be caused by the > text/plain entries in /etc/mailcap - at least, if I go and delete > those entries things start to work again. This is annoying, as things > seem to work fine most of the time and I'm not sure it's deterministic > - I haven't run an upgrade on this machine in a while, but as far as I > can tell it's _just_ started happening again. > > I suppose my question is - where is the bug? Is it netscape, > mime-support, or the packages using mime-support. And, more > importantly, how can I work around this so I don't have to do it > again!?!
This is a question for debian-user (followups there please). Netscape should have an entry under Navigator*Applications like so: Description: Plain Text MIMEType: text/plain Suffixes: txt,text Handled by: Navigator Sounds like maybe it got removed. -- - mdz
