On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Michael Schaap wrote: > On 23-Feb-2003 19:07, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >> > >>I tried everything now it may have something to do with starting it > >>directly from a view command within mutt. If I save it and then start > >>it either through windows or cygstart command it does not have any > >>corruption. > > Wild guess: > 1. Mutt saves the file to /tmp/something.doc > 2. Mutt runs "cygstart /tmp/something.doc" > 3. Cygstart starts Word (if necessary) and tells it to load the doc, > and exits immediately. > 4. Since Cygstart has exited, Mutt deletes /tmp/something.doc > 5. Word is still loading the file and gets in trouble > > > > > Just had a wild idea: try setting your .doc rule in your .mailcap as follows: > > > > Application/MSWORD; cp %s /tmp/blah.doc && cygstart /tmp/blah.doc; > > copiousoutput; > > > > It should set the permissions and ownership of /tmp/blah.doc to your > > current user... Don't know if it'll help... > > If my theory, correction, wild guess is correct, then this might indeed > help. > – Michael
D'oh, this makes much more sense than my WAGs... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/