mailcap question

Joel Hammer joel
Mon May 17 11:59:10 PDT 2004


I checked the path. The file is saved to /tmp/FileName
before SO is called with the first mailcap entry. With
the second mailcap entry, the file is NOT saved to /tmp,
resulting in the error.

It is behaving as though mutt is not saving the file
to /tmp.

Joel

. On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 10:30:48AM -0500, Tim Wunder wrote:
> 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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