[nycbug-talk] Firefox release party and NYC tech community

Pete Wright pete
Sun Nov 21 18:42:28 EST 2004


George Georgalis wrote:

>On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 03:29:39PM -0800, Pete Wright wrote:
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>>George Georgalis wrote:
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>>>Maybe you should describe what you are talking about because I have no
>>>idea.  ...A text browser doesn't do anything with binary files accept
>>>maybe auto-magically launching an audio player or image viewer (at least
>>>try). All this is done with the file's magic number (first two bytes)
>>>and mime magic, eg the file (program) database.
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>>>// George
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>>i'm sorry for the confusion all, i've used this version of w3m i suppose:
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>>http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~hsaka/w3m/#img
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>>it displays images inline during a w3m session.  for some reason i 
>>assumed that this was built into the default w3m build, i guess not.
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>Oooooh, that text browser, hehe
>http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~hsaka/w3m/mapion.png
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>whatever floats your boat. :)
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>// George
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hopefully we can just chalk this misunderstanding up to "the internet 
sux" or better yet "pete's not good at communicating sometimes" ;)

-p

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