Greetings, I am running "Wanderlust" (an emacs mailer) under NT Emacs 21.3 on WinXP SP 1. WL uses the emacs-mime package, and within that package I can hit 'v' to launch an external application using mailcap settings.
This works fine on my Mac (OS X); in my mailcap there I use /sw/bin/launch ("launch" from the fink distribution, which is based on BSD launch and launches the application assigned to the filetype). cygstart is the analogue on Windows, so I'd like to use it too. The problem is cyglaunch never actually launches anything. It works fine from the command line, but I can't make it work via .mailcap. In my emacs *messages* buffer: Wrote c:/temp/EMI33842sX/proposal2.pdf External method is starting... But nothing happens. Now, if I then open up a tcsh window and run cygstart c:/temp/EMI33842sX/proposal2.pdf it launches Acrobat nicely. Any thoughts on how I could debug this problem? It's cygstart 1.0 (latest cygwin), and I append my mailcap below. JDO ========================= image/*; cygstart %s; copiousoutput; audio/*; cygstart %s; copiousoutput; video/*; cygstart %s; copiousoutput; text/html; cygstart %s; copiousoutput; # application/octet-stream; cygstart %s; copiousoutput; application/pdf; cygstart %s; copiousoutput; application/msword; cygstart %s; copiousoutput; application/msexcel; cygstart %s; copiousoutput; application/vnd.ms-word; cygstart %s; copiousoutput; application/vnd.ms-excel; cygstart %s; copiousoutput; application/vnd.ms-powerpoint; cygstart %s; copiousoutput; application/octet-stream; cygstart %s; copiousoutput; application/postscript; cygstart %s; copiousoutput; __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/