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[h-e-w] Re: .mailcap on Windows / launching file attachments with "meado
From: |
Burkhard Perkens-Golomb |
Subject: |
[h-e-w] Re: .mailcap on Windows / launching file attachments with "meadow" or "start" or "cygstart" etc. |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Apr 2005 15:55:22 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) |
On 8 Apr 2005, John Owens wrote:
[...]
> I have never got this to work under emacs on Windows.
> I was using the 21.3 release for a while, recently
> updated to the CVS build from 30 January (above), and
> have tried a number of .mailcap entries to make this
> work. Among them are "cygstart" (from cygwin), the
> builtin "start", and "fiber" (from meadow) that are
> all supposed to launch helper apps given a file name.
cygstart seems to work without problems here (didn't know cygstart
before, thanks for the hint!).
My .mailcap:
,----[ .mailcap ]
| application/pdf;"C:/Programme/Cygwin/bin/cygstart.exe" "%s"
| image/*;"C:/Programme/Cygwin/bin/cygstart.exe" "%s"
| ...
`----
Burkhard