[ale] mailcap hacking?

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Thu Apr 22 17:56:18 EDT 2004


Fletch wrote:
>>>>>>"Geoffrey" == Geoffrey  <esoteric at 3times25.net> writes:
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>     Geoffrey> I thing your problem will be that it outputs to a file,
>     Geoffrey> not standard out.  I tried pdftotext < foo.pdf but it
>     Geoffrey> didn't like that.  Poor programming...
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> Many old-school-style things will write to stdout (or read from stdin)
> when given "-" as a file name.

And being schooled in the old-school, I should have known....

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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
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