Generic Netscape Plug-in for Linux; mimeplugin v.1.1

[Jon Rabone <93jkr@eng.cam.ac.uk>]

Saw this on c.o.l.a - would it help us win the MIME battle?
We've got to do something about the length of time the new
MIME stuff causes browsers to take when starting up.

Jon.

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>Title:          Universal MIME Plug-in for Netscape
>Version:        1.1
>Entered-date:   February 11, 1997
>Description:    This is a Universal (I hope) MIME plug-in for Linux.
>Basically, given a configuration file, it registers the plug-in with a
>corresponding MIME type.  For each MIME type, there must be associated
>extension(s) and command line to run.  For instance, given the
>MIME type audio/x-midi, it would register with Netscape that it can
>handle embedded files with the .mid extensions.  Of course, a program
>like playmidi is required to play the file.  Take a look at the sample
>configuration file for examples of how to configure the plug-in.
>
>This program was developed to play embedded midi and wav music.  Since
>it requires seperate programs to actually play the file, it does not
>support streaming.  Nor does it have the funky midi and wav controls
>seen in the Windows version of Netscape, although I would like to add
>them eventually.
>
>Keywords:       plugin netscape midi wav linux
>Author:         harshaw@wpi.edu (Carl Shimer)
>Maintained-by:  mjlong@mindspring.com (Michael J. Long)
>                harshaw@wpi.edu (Carl Shimer)
>Primary-site:  
>sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Network/info-systems/plugins
>                        mimeplugin-1.1.tgz              
>Alternate-site: ftp.mindspring.com /pub/users/mjlong/
>                        mimeplugin-1.1.tgz      
>Original-site:  ftp.zipnet.net /users/harshaw/
>                        mimeplugin-1.1.tgz
>Platform:       Linux, Sun, should recompile on other architectures
>Copying-policy: GPL
>End
>
>- ---------------------------------------------------------------
>Changes from 1.0 -> 1.1:
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>   - Added support for multiple configuration files
>   - Modified the format of the configuration file to be more flexible,
>     use convertConfig.pl to change old configuration files to the
>     the new format
>   - Allows command to be a non-absolute pathname
>   - Added support for file name to be substituted for %s, if %s is not
>     in the command, the file name is used as the last argument
>   - Changed kill to use SIGTERM instead of SIGINT 
>   - Added some error handling
>   - Seperated mimeplugin.c into mimeplugin.h
>   - Modified Makefile to include all local machine definitions
>      - CONF_FILE - name of configuration file
>      - NETSCAPE_DIR - location of netscape startup info, like plugins
>directory
>      - STDOUT_FILE - file name to log stdout messages
>      - STDERR_FILE - file name to log stderr messages
>   - Modified code to use linked list instead of arrays (more flexible)
>   - Modularized the functions to make it easier to maintain (the OO in
>me)
>   - Added debug and trace messages
>   - Added lots o' comments
>
>- -- 
>* Michael J. Long * #include <disclaimer.h>
>*     NORTEL      * Work: mjlong@nortel.ca
>*    RTP,  NC     * Play: mjlong@mindspring.com
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