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SYNOPSIS
       run-mailcap --action=<action>  [--debug=<value>]  [<mime-type>:[<encod‐
       ing>:]]<filename>  [...]

       The see, edit, compose and print versions are just aliases that default
       to the view, edit, compose, and print actions (respectively).

       You can make this your default pager and/or editor by adding  the  fol‐
       lowing to your shell startup:

         shell  file        line(s) to add
         ~~~~~  ~~~~~~~~~~  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
         sh     ~/.profile  PAGER=/usr/bin/see; export PAGER
                            EDITOR=/usr/bin/edit; export EDITOR
         csh    ~/.login    setenv PAGER /usr/bin/see
                            setenv EDITOR /usr/bin/edit


DESCRIPTION
       run-mailcap  (or  any of its aliases) will use the given action to pro‐
       cess each mime-type/file in turn.  Each file is specified as its  mime-
       type, its encoding (e.g. compression), and filename together, separated
       by colons.  If the mime-type is omitted, an attempt  to  determine  the
       type  is made by trying to match the file’s extension with those in the
       mime.types files.  If the encoding is omitted, it will also  be  deter‐
       mined  from  the  file’s extensions.  Currently supported encodings are
       gzip (.gz), bzip (.bz), bzip2 (.bz2), and compress (.Z).  A filename of
       "-"  can be used to mean "standard input", but then a mime-type must be
       specified.

       Both the user’s files (~/.mailcap; ~/.mime.types) and the system  files
       (/etc/mailcap; /etc/mime.types) are searched in turn for information.

   EXAMPLES
         see picture.jpg
         print output.ps.gz
         compose text/html:index.htm
         extract-mail-attachment msg.txt | see image/tiff:gzip:-

   OPTIONS
       All options are in the form --<opt>=<value>.

       --action=<action>
              Performs  the  specified action on the files.  Valid actions are
              view, compose, composetyped, edit and print.  If  no  action  is
              specified,  the action will be determined by how the program was
              called.

       --debug=<value>
              Turns on extra information to find out what is  happening.   Any
              value other than zero (0) will turn on debugging output.

Debian Project                   14th Mar 1998                  RUN-MAILCAP(1)
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