looking for mailcap entries to start office attachments directly

Jason Tishler jason@tishler.net
Fri Feb 8 04:04:00 GMT 2002


Olaf,

On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 11:02:13AM +0100, Olaf Foellinger wrote:
> I'm looking for a mailcap entry to start office documents directly from
> the attachments. I've looked through the archives but didn't find
> anything.

I use the attached mailcap with mutt.  It relies on the attached shell
script, winword, which I also symlink to excel, powerpnt, and winproj.

Being able to deal with Microsoft attachments is the reason why I
process my email under Cygwin instead of Linux.

HTH,
Jason
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text/html; w3m -T text/html
text/html; w3m -T text/html -dump; copiousoutput
application/msword; winword %s
application/rtf; winword %s
application/msexcel; excel %s
application/x-msexcel; excel %s
application/ppt; powerpnt %s
application/pps; powerpnt %s
application/pdf; acroread %s
application/x-mspowerpoint; powerpnt %s
application/vnd.ms-project; winproj %s
application/x-tar-gz; tar -tvzf %s; copiousoutput
application/x-tar; tar -tvf %s; copiousoutput
application/x-zip-compressed; zipinfo %s; copiousoutput
application/zip; zipinfo %s; copiousoutput
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#!/bin/bash

OfficeDrive=$(cygpath -u C:)
DefaultOfficeDrive=$(cygpath -u $SYSTEMDRIVE)
OfficeDrive=${OfficeDrive:-$DefaultOfficeDrive}
OfficeDir="$OfficeDrive/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office"

DefaultTempDir=$(cygpath -u $TEMP)
TempDir=${TempDir:-$DefaultTempDir}
TempFile=$TempDir/$(basename $1)

Program=$(basename $0)
File=$(cygpath -w $TempFile)

mv $1 $TempFile
("$OfficeDir/$Program" "$File"; rm -f $TempFile)&

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