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Date:	Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:33:58 -0500 (EST)
From:	Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To:	Ajay Simha <asimha AT cisco DOT com>
cc:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: cygstart, mutt or mailcap?
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On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Ajay Simha wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is what my .mailcap looks like:
>
> ===========================================
> text/html; lynx -dump %s; copiousoutput; nametemplate=3D%s.html
> Application/MSWORD;      cygstart %s; copiousoutput;
> Application/VND.MS-EXCEL; cygstart %s; copiousoutput;
> Application/PDF; cygstart %s; copiousoutput;
> Application/vnd.ms-powerpoint; cygstart %s; copiousoutput;
> Application/MSEXCEL; cygstart %s; copiousoutput;
> Application/octet-stream; cygstart %s; copiousoutput;
> ===========================================
>
> I'm using mutt 1.4i. When I try to view a word doc it lauches fine but
> in the middle of doing other things like reading email or doing
> something else my word doc seems to get corrupted.
>
> However I don't see this problem if I save the file and *then* run
> cygstart or directly open it in word.
>
> BTW here is where the tmp file is created:
>
> [asimha AT asimha-w2k02 ~]$ ls -lt /tmp
> ls: /tmp/mutt-asimha-w2k02-1736-194: No such file or directory
> ls: /tmp/mutt-asimha-w2k02-1736-33: No such file or directory
> total 4550
> -rw-------    1 asimha   None       483328 Feb 21 02:41 Dell-lab-summary.001736.doc
> -rwxrwxrwx    1 asimha   ????????      162 Feb 21 02:41 ~$ll-lab-summary.001736.doc
> drwxrwxrwx+  12 asimha   None         8192 Feb 21 02:22 aspell-0.50.3
> -rwxrwxrwx    1 Administ None      3962880 Feb 21 02:18 aspell-0.50.3.tar
> -rw-rw-rw-    1 asimha   None          187 Feb 21 01:47 lpr.log
> -rw-rw-rw-    1 asimha   None       201918 Feb 21 00:39 XWinrl.log
> [asimha AT asimha-w2k02 ~]$
>
> Any clues here?
>
> Thanks,
> -ajay

Ajay,

Two WAGs:
1) Is your /tmp mount binary or text?  If text, try remounting as binary.
Also see if adding "binmode" to your $CYGWIN helps.
2) This one's really wild, but I know Windews has this stupid dependence
on the name of the file.  Try using the nametemplate trick ("%s.doc", or
something), and see if it helps.
	Igor
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