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Bug#384351: mutt: fails to correctly send a .doc file to OpenOffice



Hi,

Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > >| application/msword; oowriter '%s'; edit=oowriter '%s';
> > 
> >     BTW, there should not be single quotes around %s in mailcap.

Why?

> > > OpenOffice gives the error message: /tmp/People_list_060612.doc does
> > > not exist
> > 
> >     Mutt deletes the temporary file when the called process returns.
> > This is not a bug, but admitedly may not suit background running apps.
> > Gary Johnson's excellent mutt_bgrun is the usual solution.
> 
> Unfortunately, mutt_bgrun doesn't work either: oowriter exits
> immediately and so the temporary file gets deleted before the new
> oowriter process which is called has time to read it.
> 
> I'm using openoffice.org-gnome; might that have something to do with
> it?

Probably, because then ooqstart gets used.
[ which is now de-facto default in current experimental, even without
-gtk installed ]

Regards,

Rene

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