From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/36709 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: (NT Emacs) Excel files as attachment files: \ issue Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 19:19:07 +0200 Message-ID: References: <01Jun26.114215cst.118166@ns.alcatel.com.tw> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035172251 10059 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:50:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:50:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 477 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2001 17:17:47 -0000 Original-Received: from dolk.extundo.com (195.42.214.242) by gnus.org with SMTP; 27 Jun 2001 17:17:47 -0000 Original-Received: from barbar.josefsson.org (slipsten.extundo.com [195.42.214.241]) (authenticated) by dolk.extundo.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5RHHpq27373; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 19:17:51 +0200 Original-To: Georges KO In-Reply-To: <01Jun26.114215cst.118166@ns.alcatel.com.tw> (Georges KO's message of "26 Jun 2001 11:36:08 +0800") Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.103 Original-Lines: 20 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36709 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36709 Georges KO writes: > It seems that Excel (2000 in my case) doesn't understand file > names with /, resulting in "file not found" when pressing an > attachment button. I solved this problem by writing a function to > convert the /'s into \'s and modified mm-display-external > (gnus-art.el) from: > > (mm-mailcap-command method file (mm-handle-type handle)) > > to > > (mm-mailcap-command method (reverse-slash file) (mm-handle-type handle))) Try (setq mm-file-name-rewrite-functions '(reverse-slash)) instead, to avoid modifying Gnus. Does it work? You need a OGnus from CVS.