
Universal Mime Plugin 1.0 for Netscape
Copyright (C) 1996 Carl Shimer (harshaw@wpi.edu)

This is a pretty simple program that supports embedded mime types in
Netscape.  I developed it because I wanted to listen to the midi music
that everyone has started to put on their web pages.

This program has not been extensively tested; their may be numerous bugs.

To install, first type:
make
./install

This will create the plugin and place it in the ~/.netscape/plugins
directory.  The configuration file will be placed in the
~/.netscape/mimeplugin directory.

if you don't have a compiler, just run ./install.

To see if the plugin is correctly installed, go to the Help menu, and
choose about Plugins.

Configuration:

The following lines register three mime types, their associated
extension, and the application to play the file.  Each argument is
seperated by a space.

audio/x-midi mid /usr/local/bin/playmidi
audio/midi mid /usr/local/bin/playmidi
audio/wav wav /usr/local/bin/wavplay -q        

The first argument is the mime type.  Note that you can register the
same application for different types.  

The second argument is the extension.  Netscape uses this to know
which plugin to call.

The third argument is the application to call to handle the function.
The plugin handles any number of arguments to the application.


NOTE: the configuration file format is simple and the error checking
is VERY minimal.  If you put something strange in there or have some
strange characters, it will most likely crash Netscape.





