Hi, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > >| application/msword; oowriter '%s'; edit=oowriter '%s'; > > > > BTW, there should not be single quotes around %s in mailcap.
Why? > > > 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 ] Regards, Rene
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