Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 16:01:40 -0500 From: Ajay Simha To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: Ajay Simha Subject: Re: cygstart, mutt or mailcap? Message-ID: <20030226210140.GC2716@cisco.com> References: <20030226201613.GB2716@cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i ..snip.... > > > Ajay, > > > > > > Does it fail in the same way if you use the rule I proposed? Does > > > /tmp/blah.doc remain behind? What is the timestamp on it? Can you > > > compare it to the saved version (which does work)? > > > > > > It makes a lot of sense, with the rule I proposed, that the document would > > > get corrupted if you try to open a second Word doc -- since I'm using a > > > constant filename, the second Word doc overwrites the first... I assume > > > it doesn't actually get corrupted on any other occasion with that rule... > > > > > > So here are a couple of other proposals for the .doc rule: > > > > > > Application/MSWORD; cp %s /tmp/mutt-%s.doc && cygstart /tmp/mutt-%s.doc; copiousoutput; > > > > BTW the above line in mailcap stops after the copy to /tmp. Cygstart never runs. > > > > -ajay > > > > > > This should make sure the filenames are distinct for every Word document > > > you review... > > > > > > Application/MSWORD; cygstart %s && sleep 15; copiousoutput; > > > > > > This should give Word enough time to start... > > > > > > Let me know if either of them works. > > > Igor > > Hmm, I may be a bit confused about the .mailcap format. You may need to > quote the '&&'. You may also need to invoke the shell to process it, e.g., tried both same result. However, I had tried to wrap this into a shell where I copied the file to a different filename and launched it, I seemed to have the same result. -ajay > > Application/MSWORD; /bin/sh -c "cp %s /tmp/mutt-%s.doc && cygstart /tmp/mutt-%s.doc"; copiousoutput; > > and > > Application/MSWORD; /bin/sh -c "cygstart %s && sleep 15"; copiousoutput; > > The idea is to run 2 commands in sequence. > Igor > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! > -- /usr/games/fortune > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/