Re: launching attachments from gnus under cygwin

[Jason Dufair <jase at dufair dot org>]

I forgot to mention that I have winword.exe in my path.

jeff.rancier@softechnics.com (Jeffery B. Rancier) writes:

> Jason Dufair <jase@dufair.org> 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
> `----

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Jason Dufair - jase@dufair.org
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