[h-e-w] Re: .mailcap on Windows / launching file attachments with "meadow" or "start" or "cygstart" etc.

[Burkhard Perkens-Golomb]

On 8 Apr 2005, John Owens wrote:

[...]

> I have never got this to work under emacs on Windows.
> I was using the 21.3 release for a while, recently
> updated to the CVS build from 30 January (above), and
> have tried a number of .mailcap entries to make this
> work. Among them are "cygstart" (from cygwin), the
> builtin "start", and "fiber" (from meadow) that are
> all supposed to launch helper apps given a file name.

cygstart seems to work without problems here (didn't know cygstart
before, thanks for the hint!).

My .mailcap:

,----[ .mailcap ]
| application/pdf;"C:/Programme/Cygwin/bin/cygstart.exe" "%s"
| image/*;"C:/Programme/Cygwin/bin/cygstart.exe" "%s"
| ...
`----

        Burkhard