mailcap question

[Tim Wunder]

On Saturday 07 February 2004 10:19 am, someone claiming to be Joel Hammer 
wrote:
> Does anyone know why this mailcap entry:
>
> application/msword; swriter %s
>
> works just as expected with mutt but this entry:
>
> application/msword; swriter %s &
>                                ^
>
> With the '&' at the end gives a file not found error from SO ?
>

WAG: because mutt uses a relative path to the file, and when the called 
program swriter is opened in the background, the relative path is lost.

Regards, 
Tim

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