Re: PDF viewing question

[Bennett Todd]

2000-06-09-06:49:18 Randall Hopper:
> pdf2txt is just my simple shell script wrapper for it which
> supports getting the text file on standard output.

At least in the version of pdftotext shipped with Red Hat 6.2
(0.90), pdftotext(1) claims that if the output file is "-", the
output will go to stdout. In which case you shouldn't need your
wrapper, just put

        application/pdf; pdftotext %s -; copiousoutput

in your mailcap.

-Bennett

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