From kde-core-devel  Sat Sep 30 10:23:04 2000
From: aleXXX <alexander.neundorf () rz ! tu-ilmenau ! de>
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 10:23:04 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: no mimetypes for manpages and info-files
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Am Don, 28 Sep 2000 schrieb David Faure:

> If a man page isn't recognised as such automatically, it means it's missing from
> kdelibs/kio/magic.
> Indeed. All I can see there is
> 
> # troff stuff
> #
> 0       string          .\\"            application/x-troff
> 0       string          '\\"            application/x-troff
> 0       string          '.\\"           application/x-troff
> 0       string          \\"             application/x-troff    
> 
> Do you know of any way to recognise a man page using its first N characters ?

Do the lines above mean that the first lines in the file start with ./" ?
This would have been my idea too. Maybe one could also check for .TH.

Bye
Alex

BTW what do I have to do that my man-page-viewing part supports links, i.e. I
click on a link and konqy (or whatever) changes to the new url ?