Ron & Others,

On 00-08-24 17:49, Brendan Cully <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As I recall, doing something like adding copiousoutput to the
> particular mailcap entry may work (by getting mutt to wait for you to
> press a key)... or maybe it was needsterminal...

'copiousoutput'!
Straight from my mailcap file:

text/html; netscape -remote 'openFile(%s)'; copiousoutput

This seems to put mutt into a wait mode awaiting for me to hit
Enter before proceeding.  An extra keystroke, but great because I
can actually view the page/email.


> 
> On Thursday, 24 August 2000 at 16:41, David Champion wrote:
> > On 2000.08.24, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >     "Ron da Silva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
> > 
> > Use this script (or something like it) as your viewer, like this:
> >     image/jpeg; ns-wrapper %s
> > 
> > #!/bin/sh
> > ## Wrap ns so that it doesn't lose the file
> > set -- `echo $1 | sed -e 's/\(.*\)\.\([^\.][^\.]*\)$/\1 \2/'`
> > file=$1-tmp.$2
> > echo ln -s $1.$2 ${file}
> > netscape -remote "openURL(${file}, new-window)"
> > exec sh -c "sleep 60; rm -f ${file}" &
> > 
> > Untested, watch out, beware, etc.
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Don't make Godzilla mad!



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