news.software.readers

Bada bing TwoSheds bada bang:
> My current XNewx setup is such that some JPG files ( . those with many
> lines) show up as multi-part binaries. Consequently, they have to be queued
> and saved to my 'downloads' folder.
>

This is what newsreaders do.

> I would have thought it would be possibly (perhaps configurable for certain
> file-types only) to setup Xnews so that I could view a mult-part JPG file
> in the viewer pane (rather than having to open it from my downloads folder
> with the application that I have associated with files of type JPG).
>

This is what image viewers do.

> Any suggestions on how this can be achieved? Clearly XNews is capable of
> displaying JPG's in the viewer pane so this is certainly do-able - I just
> can't see where to configure it (or if, indeed, the developer thought of
> this)

Xnews is a newsreader not an image viewer. When Luu made a
concession to allow viewing of single part jpegs he saw no need
to extend it to full image viewer capability. The entire beta
team agreed with this limited function.

However, it is possible to have Xnews automatically save
attachments of specified types and pass them on to specified
applications. Look in Special / Xnews setup. I don't recall
which tab, so you should (wait for it...) RTFM.

Mike "go ahead and RTFM a few times just for giggles" Yetto
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