On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 05:11:31PM -0400, Ron da Silva wrote:
> Seems like mutt writes attachments to /tmp and forwards the filename
> to netscape (based on my mailcap file) and then deletes the /tmp file;
> however, seems like sometimes the file gets deleted before netscape
> finishes reading the file from /tmp. Thus, I get a partial page or
> none at all.
>
> Anyone seen the above? Any ideas on fixing it?
Yep. It's a problem for other attachment viewers as well as netscape.
I've solved it by putting the following line in my mailcap file
text/html; mutt_netscape %s; test=RunningX
where the mutt_netscape script is the following:
prog=${0##*/}
tmpfile=/tmp/$LOGNAME$$${1##*/}
test -f $tmpfile && { echo "$prog: $tmpfile already exists" >&2 ; exit 1; }
cp $1 $tmpfile
netscape -remote "openURL(file:$tmpfile, new-window)" 2> /dev/null ||
netscape $tmpfile
(I cut out all the comments and a few checks for brevity. I hope I
didn't cut out too much.)
For other viewers, I use a mailcap line like this example for xv:
image/*; mutt_bgrun xv %s; test=RunningX
where mutt_bgrun is the following:
prog=${0##*/}
tmpfile=/tmp/$LOGNAME$$${2##*/}
test -f $tmpfile && { echo "$prog: $tmpfile already exists" >&2 ; exit 1; }
cp $2 $tmpfile
(
$1 $tmpfile
rm -f $tmpfile
) &
The word bgrun means "background run" because it runs the viewer in the
background, freeing up mutt for other tasks.
Gary
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Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | RF Communications Product Generation Unit
| Spokane, Washington, USA
