On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 06:38:42PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > >| application/msword; oowriter '%s'; edit=oowriter '%s'; > > > > > > BTW, there should not be single quotes around %s in mailcap. > > Why?
I don't know - I didn't write this. Perhaps ask the person who made this comment? > > > > 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? > > Probably, because then ooqstart gets used. > [ which is now de-facto default in current experimental, even without > -gtk installed ] Oh. So any ideas what the "correct" way to call openoffice from mailcap should be? Thanks, Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
