Bug 57362

Summary: default handler for application/postscript is lpr
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky>
Component: mailcapAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Version: 7.2CC: rvokal
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Description Boris Zbarsky 2001-12-10 20:42:25 UTC 
Description of problem:

The default /etc/mailcap installed with RedHat 7.2 (and 6.2) has:

application/postscript ; lpr %s \; \
    echo SENT FILE TO PRINTER ; \
    description="A Postscript File"; \
    compose="getfilename Postscript %s"

This is a very poor default since

1)  Printing is often not set up correctly
2)  People usually want to _see_ the file before printing it

Having gv or ghostview as the default application would make a lot more sense.
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2001-12-13 17:43:21 UTC 
Fixed in 2.1.9-1.