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Re: cygstart, mutt or mailcap?

From: Michael Schaap <cygwin at mscha dot org>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Cc: Andrew Markebo <andrew dot markebo at telia dot com>
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 21:58:26 +0100
Subject: Re: cygstart, mutt or mailcap?
References: <3E591A44.2000603@mscha.org> <Pine.GSO.4.44.0302231440520.16682-100000@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> <m3wujqybd1.fsf@telia.com>

On 23-Feb-2003 21:45, Andrew Markebo wrote:

|> Wild guess:
|>   1. Mutt saves the file to /tmp/something.doc
|>   2. Mutt runs "cygstart /tmp/something.doc"
|>   3. Cygstart starts Word (if necessary) and tells it to load the doc,
|>      and exits immediately.
|>   4. Since Cygstart has exited, Mutt deletes /tmp/something.doc
|>   5. Word is still loading the file and gets in trouble

Wild guess 2 (sorry if I have missed this thought before)

/tmp/something.doc gets sent to cygstart... points to
c:\cygwin\tmp\something.doc, who opens word with "/tmp/something.doc",
who looks for c:\tmp\something.doc?

Nope: cygstart is Posix-path-aware, so will translate /tmp/something.doc to (usually) c:\tmp\something.doc internally.

- Michael


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References:
- Re: cygstart, mutt or mailcap?
  - From: Michael Schaap
- Re: cygstart, mutt or mailcap?
  - From: Igor Pechtchanski
- Re: cygstart, mutt or mailcap?
  - From: Andrew Markebo

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