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[nmh] / man / mhshow.man

diff --git a/man/mhshow.man b/man/mhshow.man
index 088dccaf5d99787208e52429b7c6842d8db8e65d..9cc44c1b83597c52f68c3a011b7ae79de6f509f7 100644 (file)
--- a/man/mhshow.man
+++ b/man/mhshow.man
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MHSHOW %manext1% "%nmhdate%" MH.6.8 [%nmhversion%]
+.TH MHSHOW %manext1% "May 4, 2013" "%nmhversion%"
 .\"
 .\" %nmhwarning%
 .\"
@@ -38,11 +38,11 @@ message or collection of messages.
 .PP
 .B mhshow
 manipulates multi-media messages as specified in
-RFC\-2045 thru RFC\-2049.  Currently
+RFC 2045 to RFC 2049.  Currently
 .B mhshow
 only supports
 encodings in message bodies, and does not support the encoding of
-message headers as specified in RFC\-2047.
+message headers as specified in RFC 2047.
 .PP
 By default
 .B mhshow
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ be in mail drop format (to convert a file in
 mail drop format to a folder of
 .B nmh
 messages, see
-.BR inc (1)).
+.IR inc (1)).
 .PP
 A part specification consists of a series of numbers separated by dots.
 For example, in a multipart content containing three parts, these
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ switch will not prevent the content from being acted upon.
 .PP
 A content specification consists of a content type and a subtype.
 The initial list of \*(lqstandard\*(rq content types and subtypes can
-be found in RFC\-2046.
+be found in RFC 2046.
 .PP
 A list of commonly used contents is briefly reproduced here:
 .PP
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ redirected from the terminal to the content.
 .PP
 If a display string is not found,
 .B mhshow
-has several default values:
+behaves as if these profile entries were supplied and supported:
 .PP
 .RS 5
 .nf
@@ -273,6 +273,9 @@ mhshow-show-message/rfc822: %pshow -file '%F'
 .fi
 .RE
 .PP
+Note that \*(lqmoreproc\*(rq is not supported in user profile display
+strings.
+.PP
 If a subtype of type text doesn't have a profile entry, it will be
 treated as text/plain.
 .PP
@@ -325,15 +328,15 @@ encounters a \*(lqcharset\*(rq parameter for
 this content, it checks if your terminal can display this character
 set natively.
 .B mhn
-checks this by examining the the environment
-variable
-.BR $MM_CHARSET .
-If the value of this environment variable is equal
+checks this by examining the current character set defined by the
+.IR locale (1)
+environment variables.
+If the value of the locale character set is equal
 to the value of the charset parameter, then
 .B mhshow
 assumes it can
-display this content without any additional setup.  If this environment
-variable is not set,
+display this content without any additional setup.  If the locale is not
+set properly,
 .B mhshow
 will assume a value of \*(lqUS-ASCII\*(rq.
 If the character set cannot be displayed natively, then
@@ -409,7 +412,7 @@ profile entry to
 and it will get
 called automatically.  (To handle other single-octet character sets,
 look at the
-.BR less (1)
+.IR less (1)
 manual entry for information about the
 .B $LESSCHARDEF
 environment variable.)
@@ -419,7 +422,7 @@ cannot directly display messages of type partial.
 You must reassemble them first into a normal message using
 .BR mhstore .
 Check the man page for
-.BR mhstore (1)
+.IR mhstore (1)
 for details.
 .SS "External Access"
 For contents of type message/external-body,
@@ -436,6 +439,8 @@ ftp
 local-file
 .IP \(bu 4
 mail-server
+.IP \(bu 4
+url
 .PP
 For the \*(lqanon-ftp\*(rq and \*(lqftp\*(rq access types,
 .B mhshow
@@ -464,6 +469,14 @@ local filename
 .PP
 The program should terminate with an exit status of zero if the
 retrieval is successful, and a non-zero exit status otherwise.
+.PP
+For the \*(lqurl\*(rq access\-type,
+.B mhshow
+will look for the \*(lqnmh-access-url\*(rq
+profile entry.  See
+.IR mhstore (1)
+for more details.
+.PP
 .SS "The Content Cache"
 When
 .B mhshow
@@ -550,8 +563,16 @@ e.g.,
 which is created automatically during
 .B nmh
 installation.
-
 .SH FILES
+.B mhshow
+looks for all format files and mhn.defaults in multiple locations:
+absolute pathnames are accessed directly, tilde expansion is done on
+usernames, and files are searched for in the user's
+.I Mail
+directory as specified in their profile.  If not found there, the directory
+.RI \*(lq %etcdir% \*(rq
+is checked.
+.PP
 .fc ^ ~
 .nf
 .ta \w'%etcdir%/ExtraBigFileName  'u
@@ -560,7 +581,6 @@ installation.
 ^%etcdir%/mhn.defaults~^System default MIME profile entries
 ^%etcdir%/mhl.headers~^The headers template
 .fi
-
 .SH "PROFILE COMPONENTS"
 .fc ^ ~
 .nf
@@ -571,16 +591,19 @@ installation.
 ^Unseen\-Sequence:~^To name sequences denoting unseen messages
 ^mhlproc:~^Default program to display message headers
 ^nmh-access-ftp:~^Program to retrieve contents via FTP
+^nmh-access-url:~^Program to retrieve contents via HTTP
 ^nmh-cache~^Public directory to store cached external contents
 ^nmh-private-cache~^Personal directory to store cached external contents
 ^mhshow-charset-<charset>~^Template for environment to render character sets
 ^mhshow-show-<type>*~^Template for displaying contents
 ^moreproc:~^Default program to display text/plain content
 .fi
-
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
-mhbuild(1), mhl(1), mhlist(1), mhstore(1), sendfiles(1)
-
+.IR mhbuild (1),
+.IR mhl (1),
+.IR mhlist (1),
+.IR mhstore (1),
+.IR sendfiles (1)
 .SH DEFAULTS
 .nf
 .RB ` +folder "' defaults to the current folder"
@@ -592,7 +615,6 @@ mhbuild(1), mhl(1), mhlist(1), mhstore(1), sendfiles(1)
 .RB ` \-noserialonly '
 .RB ` \-wcache\ ask '
 .fi
-
 .SH CONTEXT
 If a folder is given, it will become the current folder.  The last
 message selected will become the current message.