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 To: jeff.rancier@softechnics.com (Jeffery B. Rancier) Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: launching attachments from gnus under cygwin References: From: Jason Dufair Reply-To: jase@dufair.org Organization: The Dufair Family Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 09:37:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Jeffery B. Rancier's message of "Mon, 18 Aug 2003 19:33:43 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.2 (cygwin) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I forgot to mention that I have winword.exe in my path. jeff.rancier@softechnics.com (Jeffery B. Rancier) writes: > Jason Dufair writes: > > All I get is the following in the mini-buffer: > > ,---- > | Displaying cmd /c winword.exe "`cygpath -aw "h:/tmp/emm.3792QGW/Offices.doc"`"... > `---- > > Ideas? > >> In the event this helps anyone... >> >> I'm running GNU Emacs 21.2.1 and gnus 5.10.1 under Cygwin 1.3.22. I got >> tired of having to save attachments and then open a dired buffer and >> then launch via shellex. So I created a .mailcap and put the following >> in there: >> >> application/msword; cmd /c winword.exe "`cygpath -aw "%s"`" >> >> Lo and behold, MS Word attachments now launch. Lather, rinse, and >> repeat for other MIME types. >> >> -- >> Jason Dufair - jase@dufair.org >> http://www.dufair.org/ >> Cult: (n) a small, unpopular religion. >> Religion: (n) a large, popular cult. >> -- Unknown > > -- > Thanks, > Jeff > > ,---- > | Jeffery B. Rancier > | > | Softechnics > | a METTLER TOLEDO company > `---- -- Jason Dufair - jase@dufair.org http://www.dufair.org/ "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." -- Thomas Jefferson -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/