[ale] mailcap hacking?

[ale at FultonGreen.com (Fulton Green)]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 03:18:23PM -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> > Mut appears to be using mailcap for content disposition.  If the files
> > were being sent as application/pdf, I'd be able to get Mutt to
> > automatically launch the PDF reader.  Unfortunately, the content type
> > for the file is application/octet-stream, which could be pretty much
> > anything.  I don't think there is a way for mailcap to tell it to "launch
> > pdf2text if the file extension is .pdf".
> 
> I thing your problem will be that it outputs to a file, not standard 
> out.  I tried pdftotext < foo.pdf but it didn't like that.  Poor 
> programming...

Actually, the "-" switch specifies stdout.