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Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:

> OK -- this last patch solved most of my problems. But I am now
> encountering a more subtle problem on just a few of my email
> attachments that only affects launching programs in Windoze and not Linux.
> 
> Specifically, everything works fine when using oocalc/oowriter
> etc. under Linux/Gnome to launch attached M$ documents.
> 
> However, when I try to read the very same email message and launch the
> same attachments under Windoze, the files are detached to my Windoze
> temp directory but the relevant MS Office application fails to launch.
> The problem appears to be due to characaters like "&" in the filename
> which somehow must not get parsed properly by the windoze launcher.
> 
> Note I am using the following code to trigger the launch of the
> external applications: 
> 
> (add-to-lists 
>  'vm-mime-external-content-types-alist
>  (cond
>   ((equal window-system 'x)
>    '(("audio/x-wav" "mplayer -quiet")
> 	 ("application/msword" "oowriter")
> ;	 ("application/rtf" "oowriter")
> 	 ("application/vnd.ms-powerpoint" "ooimpress")
> 	 ("application/vnd.ms-excel" "oocalc")
> 	 ("application/msexcel" "oocalc")
> 	 ("application/pdf" "acroread")))
>   ((equal window-system 'w32)
>    '(("application" "cmd" "/C" "%f")
> 	 ("audio" "cmd" "/c" "%f")
> 	 ("image" "cmd" "/c" "%f")
> 	 ("video" "cmd" "/c" "%f")))
>   ))
> 
> [Note: add-to-lists is my own mapcar version of the add-to-list function.]
> 
> Do I need to add any extra quoting somehow to make sure that the
> filenames are passed properly?
> [note again that the files are detached properly to the temp
> directory, they just fail to launch the appropriate viewer
> application]

The file name should not be quoted when it is passed directly to an
external PROGRAM.  Since the cmd launcher is a shell, you should use the
COMMAND-LINE syntax provided by vm-mime-external-content-types-alist to
take advantage of the patch I posted on the 12th in this thread (which
quotes the file name when it is passed to a shell):

("application" "cmd /c %f")
("audio" "cmd /c %f")
("image" "cmd /c %f")
("video" "cmd /c %f")

-- 
Kevin Rodgers