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Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 20:00:20 +0100
From: Michael Schaap <cygwin AT mscha DOT org>
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Subject: Re: cygstart, mutt or mailcap?
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On 23-Feb-2003 19:07, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>
>>I tried everything now it may have something to do with starting it
>>directly from a view command within mutt.  If I save it and then start
>>it either through windows or cygstart command it does not have any
>>corruption.
> 

Wild guess:
  1. Mutt saves the file to /tmp/something.doc
  2. Mutt runs "cygstart /tmp/something.doc"
  3. Cygstart starts Word (if necessary) and tells it to load the doc,
     and exits immediately.
  4. Since Cygstart has exited, Mutt deletes /tmp/something.doc
  5. Word is still loading the file and gets in trouble

> 
> Just had a wild idea: try setting your .doc rule in your .mailcap as follows:
> 
> Application/MSWORD;      cp %s /tmp/blah.doc && cygstart /tmp/blah.doc; copiousoutput;
> 
> It should set the permissions and ownership of /tmp/blah.doc to your
> current user...  Don't know if it'll help...

If my theory, correction, wild guess is correct, then this might indeed 
help.

  – Michael


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