On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 10:42:56PM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
> 
> I just installed Netscape/Communicator 4.76 from my Debian 2.2_r2
> CD's.  When I run netscape, I get this error:
> 
> Netscape: Ignoring unsupported format code in mailcap file: %{
> 
> Then Netscape comes up OK.  What's that all about?  A "locate
> mailcap" indicates the only mailcap file on my system is in /etc.

Sounds like a syntax error in your /etc/mailcap.  Entries like %{foo}
should be expanded to some value (possibly an empty string?).  Possibly
the result of a misplaced quote '"'???  Don't know to fix, maybe force
reinstall "mime-support" ?  

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>

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