On 010612, at 12:15:00, malcolm.boekhoff wrote
> I want to spawn internet explorer or lynx or any program to read an
> attachment, but I want to be able to continue to read my mail with the
> spawned process still going. Unfortunately it appears that Mutt deletes
> the temporary file containing the attachment so that even if I do get
> the syntax for spawning the viewer asynchronously, the actual temporary
> file has been deleted.
I use the attached script to rename the temporary file, and launch a
program in the background. I create a link to it, 'prog'bg for each
program I want to launch (ie for xv, the link is xvbg; for acroread,
the link is acroreadbg).
I add an appropriate line to my mailcap file:
application/pdf; acroreadbg %s;
--
David Ellement
#!/bin/ksh
#
eval ${DEBUG+set -x}
prog=${0##*/}
prog=${prog%bg}
tmp=$(mktemp -p ${prog}-).$(echo "${1##*/}" | sed -e 's/ /_/g')
mv "$1" $tmp
( $prog $tmp
rm $tmp
) >&- 2>&- &
