Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <20050131230707.59008.qmail@web53003.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:07:07 -0800 (PST) From: John Owens Subject: problems with cygstart as .mailcap - how to use? To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii (I asked this question in October and got no response ... would be happy if anyone on this list could help me out.) Greetings, I am running "Wanderlust" (an emacs mailer) under NT Emacs 21.3 on WinXP SP 1. WL uses the emacs-mime package, and within that package I can hit 'v' to launch an external application using mailcap settings. This works fine on my Mac (OS X); in my mailcap there I use /sw/bin/launch ("launch" from the fink distribution, which is based on BSD launch and launches the application assigned to the filetype). cygstart is the analogue on Windows, so I'd like to use it too. The problem is cyglaunch never actually launches anything. It works fine from the command line, but I can't make it work via .mailcap. In my emacs *messages* buffer: Wrote c:/temp/EMI33842sX/proposal2.pdf External method is starting... But nothing happens. Now, if I then open up a tcsh window and run cygstart c:/temp/EMI33842sX/proposal2.pdf it launches Acrobat nicely. Any thoughts on how I could debug this problem? It's cygstart 1.0 (latest cygwin), and I append my mailcap below. JDO ========================= image/*; cygstart %s; copiousoutput; audio/*; cygstart %s; copiousoutput; video/*; cygstart %s; copiousoutput; text/html; cygstart %s; copiousoutput; # application/octet-stream; cygstart %s; copiousoutput; application/pdf; cygstart %s; copiousoutput; application/msword; cygstart %s; copiousoutput; application/msexcel; cygstart %s; copiousoutput; application/vnd.ms-word; cygstart %s; copiousoutput; application/vnd.ms-excel; cygstart %s; copiousoutput; application/vnd.ms-powerpoint; cygstart %s; copiousoutput; application/octet-stream; cygstart %s; copiousoutput; application/postscript; cygstart %s; copiousoutput; __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/