From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31996 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rod Whitby Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Good things to put in mailcap-mime-data for NT? Date: 07 Aug 2000 08:58:26 +0930 Organization: Motorola Australia Software Centre Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <64hf8y7yw5.fsf@a11375-rw.asc.corp.mot.com> References: <64zon36lg7.fsf@a11375-rw.asc.corp.mot.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035168343 17316 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:45:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:45:43 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0885D051E for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 19:29:32 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAC10686; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 18:29:17 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 06 Aug 2000 18:28:35 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA10549 for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 18:28:24 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from motgate.mot.com (motgate.mot.com [129.188.136.100]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 152A4D051E for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 19:28:56 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: [from pobox.mot.com (pobox.mot.com [129.188.137.100]) by motgate.mot.com (motgate 2.1) with ESMTP id QAA18255 for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 16:28:52 -0700 (MST)] Original-Received: [from fraser.asc.corp.mot.com (fraser.asc.corp.mot.com [217.1.104.8]) by pobox.mot.com (MOT-pobox 2.0) with ESMTP id QAA04010 for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 16:28:46 -0700 (MST)] Original-Received: from a11375-rw.asc.corp.mot.com.asc.corp.mot.com (a11375-rw [217.1.106.149]) by fraser.asc.corp.mot.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id IAA16407 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 08:58:44 +0930 (CST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Jonas Steverud's message of "06 Aug 2000 19:18:09 +0200" Original-Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.2 (Molpe) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31996 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31996 Jonas Steverud writes: > Rod Whitby writes: > > Jonas Steverud writes: > > > Anyone that has some nice elisp/data to add to mailcap-mime-data for > > > usage on WinNT? > > [...] > > What I do on XEmacs/NT to get around the whole problem of deciding > > which application to launch is to get Windows to decide for me: > [...] > > (defun mailcap-mswindows-shell-execute () > [...] > > (mswindows-shell-execute "open" file) > > Is that a function that comes with XEmacs? I couldn't find it in > NTEmacs/Gnus (I can't say wich version I use since I'm not at my > office on a sunday evening...). Otherwise ot looks good code. Yes, that's an XEmacs function. But it should be available on all NT Emacsen (or should be easy for someone to add if it's not). I believe it pretty much maps straight to a single Windows call. -- -- Rod Whitby, Snr Staff Engr, Electronic Design Automation -- -- Motorola Australia Software Centre - Adelaide, Australia -- -- Phone: +61 8 8168 3526, Fax: +61 8 8168 3501, --