* On 23 Jan 2015, Gary Johnson wrote: 
> >     #!/bin/sh
> >     COPY="$1.firefox.html"
> >     ln "$1" "$COPY"
> >     /usr/bin/firefox "$COPY" &
> 
> I'm surprised that linking works because it used to be that mutt
> overwrote the temporary file with 0s before deleting it.  I thought
> it still did, but I don't know for sure.

You're right, it does overwrite (at least for most cases).  I don't
think this was always true, but it's been a very long time since I used
mailcap this way, so I'm pretty distant.

So a hard link won't work.

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David Champion • [email protected]

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