Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/02/21/10:59:38
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Ajay Simha wrote:
> On Fri Feb 21 09:33:58 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Ajay Simha wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > This is what my .mailcap looks like:
> > >
> > > ===========================================
> > > text/html; lynx -dump %s; copiousoutput; nametemplate=3D%s.html
> > > Application/MSWORD; cygstart %s; copiousoutput;
> > > Application/VND.MS-EXCEL; cygstart %s; copiousoutput;
> > > Application/PDF; cygstart %s; copiousoutput;
> > > Application/vnd.ms-powerpoint; cygstart %s; copiousoutput;
> > > Application/MSEXCEL; cygstart %s; copiousoutput;
> > > Application/octet-stream; cygstart %s; copiousoutput;
> > > ===========================================
> > >
> > > I'm using mutt 1.4i. When I try to view a word doc it lauches fine but
> > > in the middle of doing other things like reading email or doing
> > > something else my word doc seems to get corrupted.
> > >
> > > However I don't see this problem if I save the file and *then* run
> > > cygstart or directly open it in word.
> > >
> > > BTW here is where the tmp file is created:
> > >
> > > [asimha AT asimha-w2k02 ~]$ ls -lt /tmp
> > > ls: /tmp/mutt-asimha-w2k02-1736-194: No such file or directory
> > > ls: /tmp/mutt-asimha-w2k02-1736-33: No such file or directory
> > > total 4550
> > > -rw------- 1 asimha None 483328 Feb 21 02:41 Dell-lab-summary.001736.doc
> > > -rwxrwxrwx 1 asimha ???????? 162 Feb 21 02:41 ~$ll-lab-summary.001736.doc
> > > drwxrwxrwx+ 12 asimha None 8192 Feb 21 02:22 aspell-0.50.3
> > > -rwxrwxrwx 1 Administ None 3962880 Feb 21 02:18 aspell-0.50.3.tar
> > > -rw-rw-rw- 1 asimha None 187 Feb 21 01:47 lpr.log
> > > -rw-rw-rw- 1 asimha None 201918 Feb 21 00:39 XWinrl.log
> > > [asimha AT asimha-w2k02 ~]$
> > >
> > > Any clues here?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > -ajay
> >
> > Ajay,
> >
> > Two WAGs:
> > 1) Is your /tmp mount binary or text? If text, try remounting as binary.
> > Also see if adding "binmode" to your $CYGWIN helps.
> > 2) This one's really wild, but I know Windews has this stupid dependence
> > on the name of the file. Try using the nametemplate trick ("%s.doc", or
> > something), and see if it helps.
> > Igor
>
> Hey thanks for the quick reply.
>
> Regarding 2) it *is* a .doc if not the default windows handler would not
> work for it.
Umm, yes, I'm slow today. However, the '????????' in your ls output
indicates that your /etc/{passwd,group} aren't up to date. See
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-RELEASE1.3.20> for
details. Probably unrelated, but something to fix anyway.
> Regarding 1) :
> [asimha AT asimha-w2k02 /etc]$ mount
> D:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system (binmode)
> D:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type user (binmode)
> D:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type user (binmode)
> D:\cygwin on / type user (binmode)
> c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount)
> d: on /cygdrive/d type user (binmode,noumount)
> z: on /cygdrive/z type user (binmode,noumount)
> [asimha AT asimha-w2k02 /etc]$ df -k
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> D:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts
> 5496088 2290917 3205171 42% /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
> D:\cygwin\bin 5496088 2290917 3205171 42% /usr/bin
> D:\cygwin\lib 5496088 2290917 3205171 42% /usr/lib
> D:\cygwin 5496088 2290917 3205171 42% /
> c: 6289888 2666732 3623156 43% /cygdrive/c
> d: 5496088 2290917 3205171 42% /cygdrive/d
> z: 555604 555604 0 100% /cygdrive/z
Looks fine (/tmp will be under the "/" mount).
> is there a way to mount d:\cygwin\tmp as it's own file system
Yes. "man mount".
> or simply make cygwin use my desktop as tmp?
Ugh, you don't want to do that. For one, anytime you run "configure"
you'd get a lot of directories on your desktop. Unless you actually
*like* a cluttered desktop... ];->
You could mount your Windows profile's Temp directory as /tmp, though...
Make that one a user mount, though.
> Thanks,
> -ajay
Hope this helps,
Igor
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