On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Robin S. Socha wrote:
uzs8kb> Someone suggested the following recipe for starting lynx as a
uzs8kb> filter for HTML messages (which pine cannot display):
uzs8kb>
uzs8kb> >:0 bf
uzs8kb> >* ^Content-type: text/html
uzs8kb> >| cat > /tmp/m$$.html ; lynx -dump /tmp/m$$.html ; rm /tmp/m$$.html
uzs8kb> >
uzs8kb> >This should take all messages containing a header line
uzs8kb> >starting, "Content-type: text/html" and pipe the body of the
uzs8kb> >message through the command given, which saves the body to a
uzs8kb> >file ("cat > /tmp/m$$.html"), uses Lynx to convert the HTML to
uzs8kb> >plain text ("lynx -dump /tmp/m$$.html"), then removes the old
uzs8kb> >body ("rm /tmp/m$$.html"). The output from Lynx is captured as
uzs8kb> >the new body of the message and processing of your
uzs8kb> >".procmailrc" continues.
uzs8kb>
uzs8kb> Somehow, that doesn't seem to work. I've been toying around with
uzs8kb> it and suspect that at least the lynx -dump /tmp/m$$.html part
uzs8kb> is wrong, because I have to > the output to a file...
I don't know how to strip the HTML to a file, but if you want to train
pine to view the HTML using lynx as you read the message, just add the
following to your .mailcap file:
text/html; lynx -force_html %s; \
test=test -z "$LYNX_VERSION"; needsterminal
Note this is untested. What I actually use is a more complicated form
that invokes Netscape if $DISPLAY is set, and lynx if it's not:
# HTML Support, courtesy Glenn A Malling
<gmalling(_at_)mailbox(_dot_)syr(_dot_)edu>
# Try to use an existing netscape instantiation; if not, start one
text/html; netscape-sgi -remote "openFile(%s)" || netscape %s; \
test=test -n "$DISPLAY" -a -z "$LYNX_VERSION"
# When display is not set and lynx isn't already running
# Don't know whether a URL can be passed to a running lynx instantiation
text/html; lynx -force_html %s; \
test=test -z "$DISPLAY" -a -z "$LYNX_VERSION"; needsterminal
Hope it helps,
--
Rick Troxel Rick_Troxel(_at_)nih(_dot_)gov
rick(_at_)helix(_dot_)nih(_dot_)gov
http://www.dc-sage.org/bios/rick_troxel 301/435-2983
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