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

[Alain Bench <veronatif@free.fr>]

 On Sunday, August 27, 2006 at 16:54:12 +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:

> 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.

    mutt_bgrun does the backgrounding; The viewer must not. Otherwise
the early deletion problem continues. Perhaps is there an option to
disable backgrounding in oowriter?

    Alternatively drop mutt_bgrun, and wait some seconds. Example:
"oowriter %s \; sleep 42". That's less clean, but may just work.

    I think clean solutions are just 2: Either read file first then go
background, or use mutt_bgrun with a blocking viewer.


Bye!	Alain.
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