AMosaic mailcap ???
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AMosaic will download a sound file and then tell me that it's spawning an
external viewer, but then nothing happens. Why is this so? My mailcap line
referring to audio is as follows:
audio/*; sys:Utilities/MultiView %s PUBSCREEN=Mosaic
I don't really understand the syntax at the beginning of these lines anyway. I
assume that this means that any audio file will be sent to MultiView. I have a
WAV datatype, yet when I clicked on a link to a WAV, I got the message about an
external viewer but then no Multiview! What gives?
Also, many times I'll click on a link to a GIF and the GIF will be transferred,
but instead of the GIF appearing, the link will just go dark blue at the end of
the transfer.
Finally, is it possible to view JPEGs with AMosaic? I have a JPEG datatype,
although it's pretty darn slow. Should I call VT as an external viewer, with a
line like this?
image/JPEG; Work:Players/VT %s
Is there documentation for this stuff anywhere? Much of the stuff at the
AMosaic location–which incidentally takes like 5 minutes per link!–is rather
sketchy.
Mr. Zombie
There's a program called AMPrefs, available on the AMosaic-webpage which is
supposed to simplify your mailcap-settings. I have not tried it myself, but
maybe that will help you out.
If you start AMosaic for the first time, it opens on your WB-screen. If you
like it like that, you will have to remove all the PUBSCREEN=Mosaic-lines.
Alternatively you can use MUI to let AMosaic open on it's own screen.
I read some tips somewhere to let AMosaic run more stable:
– let it run on it's own screen
– set Window-Refresh to Simple in MUI
– set Redraw to Fast/Ugly in MUI
Hope this helps,
Karl Van Hoyweghen on AP 1.80 from Belgium
email: kvh@pophost.eunet.be