NAME
    Mail::Cap - Parse mailcap files

SYNOPSIS
        my $mc = new Mail::Cap;

        $desc = $mc->description('image/gif');

        print "GIF desc: $desc\n";

        $cmd = $mc->viewCmd('text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1', 'file.txt');

DESCRIPTION
    Parse mailcap files as specified in RFC 1524 - *A User Agent
    Configuration Mechanism For Multimedia Mail Format Information*. In the
    description below $type refers to the MIME type as specified in the
    *Content-Type* header of mail or HTTP messages. Examples of types are:

      image/gif
      text/html
      text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

METHODS
  new()
      $mcap = new Mail::Cap;
      $mcap = new Mail::Cap "/mydir/mailcap";

    Create and initialize a new Mail::Cap object. If you give it an argument
    it will try to parse the specified file. Without any arguments it will
    search for the mailcap file using the standard mailcap path, or the
    MAILCAPS environment variable if it is defined.

  view($type, $file)
  compose($type, $file)
  edit($type, $file)
  print($type, $file)
    These methods invoke a suitable progam presenting or manipulating the
    media object in the specified file. They all return 1 if a command was
    found, and 0 otherwise. You might test $? for the outcome of the
    command.

  viewCmd($type, $file)
  composeCmd($type, $file)
  editCmd($type, $file)
  printCmd($type, $file)
    These methods return a string that is suitable for feeding to system()
    in order to invoke a suitable progam presenting or manipulating the
    media object in the specified file. It will return "undef" if no
    suitable specification exists.

  field($type, $field)
    Returns the specified field for the type. Returns undef if no
    specification exsists.

  description($type)
  textualnewlines($type)
  x11_bitmap($type)
  nametemplate($type)
    These methods return the corresponding mailcap field for the type. These
    methods should be more convenient to use than the field() method for the
    same fields.

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (c) 1995 Gisle Aas. All rights reserved.

    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR
    Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>

    Maintained by Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>

