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Re: LYNX-DEV External filters (was: converting Pine addressbook to html)
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Klaus Weide |
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Re: LYNX-DEV External filters (was: converting Pine addressbook to html) |
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Tue, 25 Feb 1997 19:32:14 -0600 (CST) |
On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim) wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Klaus Weide wrote:
> > Tom Zerucha wrote:
> > > Jim Spath wrote:
> > > > Tom Zerucha wrote:
> > > > > Since we have multiple bookmarks, could there be read-only bookmarks
> > > > > that
> > > > > take the output of a command, e.g.
> > > > > Bookmark P = "#!/bin/sh;cat ~/.addressbook | pineab2html"
> > > > Ahh. So we need Lynx to be able to read from stdin, or a pipe, to
> > > > extend
> > > Different locus of change. If I already use Pine (since I don't think
> > > Lynx supports pop3: URLs), I might want to maintain my mail reader
> > > separately from Lynx, but be able to mailto: using the file.
> > ...
> > [ I am commenting mostly on the last sentence, I haven't tried to
> > understand exactly the exact use of this w.r.t. bookmarks, pine, etc. ]
>
> Okay, I've now learned how to use lynxcgi :-) From some of the tasks
> under discussion (but not tables), this is the Lynx way to go. First, you
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> must have LYNXCGI_LINKS defined in userdefs.h.
Yes, tables is what I had more in mind (and I assume Tom, too).
So for what you wanted, a general filter mechanism (where Lynx pipes
a data stream to the stdin of an external program, and reads the external
program's stout for further processing) is not needed.
Aside from tabls support and maybe fixing-up-broken-HTML external filters,
an external filter pipe could also be used for handling compressed pages
(instead of the current use of a temporary file) - at least for gzip
format, just pipe a data stream through "gunzip -c -".
> I've been checking out the latest NS beta, which, bizarrely, seems to
> encourage putting HTML tags into email messages.
Well, what a surprise...
> So reading those
> messages, as well as being able to use embedded URLs in mail is a useful
> task. I've modified an existing email-to-html filter program,
> "babymail.pl" so that it simply reads its stdin and generates html on
> stdout. It's at http://www.bcpl.lib.md.us/~jspath/perl/sonofbabymail.pl.
>
[ details snipped ]
>
> Did I mention you have to define LYNXCGI_LINKS ? :-)
Nice application of lynxcgi:. Maybe you can now start investigating
whether you can somehow make it understand the proposed mid: and cid: URL
schemes... (see
Linkname: MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate HTML Documents (mhtml)
<URL: http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/ids.by.wg/mhtml.html>)
Klaus
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- LYNX-DEV converting Pine addressbook to html, Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim), 1997/02/21
- Re: LYNX-DEV converting Pine addressbook to html, Larry W. Virden, x2487, 1997/02/21
- Re: LYNX-DEV converting Pine addressbook to html - Why not add..., Tom Zerucha, 1997/02/22
- Re: LYNX-DEV converting Pine addressbook to html - Why not add..., Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim), 1997/02/23
- Re: LYNX-DEV converting Pine addressbook to html - Why not add..., Tom Zerucha, 1997/02/23
- LYNX-DEV External filters (was: converting Pine addressbook to html), Klaus Weide, 1997/02/24
- Re: LYNX-DEV External filters, root, 1997/02/25
- Re: LYNX-DEV External filters (was: converting Pine addressbook to html), Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim), 1997/02/25
- Re: LYNX-DEV External filters (was: converting Pine addressbook to html),
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- Re: LYNX-DEV lynx.browser.org unreachable., Wayne Buttles, 1997/02/26
- Re: LYNX-DEV lynx.browser.org unreachable., David W. Morgan, 1997/02/26
- Re: LYNX-DEV lynx.browser.org unreachable., Rob Partington, 1997/02/26