On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 02:06:04PM +0200, Alain Bench wrote: > Hello Julian, and thank you for reporting us this problem. > > On Wednesday, August 23, 2006 at 18:21:21 +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > >| application/msword; oowriter '%s'; edit=oowriter '%s'; > > BTW, there should not be single quotes around %s in mailcap. > > > > when I select this file for viewing from the attachments window, > > OpenOffice gives the error message: /tmp/People_list_060612.doc does > > not exist > > Mutt deletes the temporary file when the called process returns. > This is not a bug, but admitedly may not suit background running apps. > Gary Johnson's excellent mutt_bgrun is the usual solution.
Unfortunately, mutt_bgrun doesn't work either: oowriter exits immediately and so the temporary file gets deleted before the new oowriter process which is called has time to read it. I'm using openoffice.org-gnome; might that have something to do with it? Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

