Re: Image view on winxp

[Fabrice Popineau <Fabrice.Popineau@supelec.fr>]

* Dave Goldberg <david.goldberg6@verizon.net> writes:

    > Anyway, assuming you can fire up viewers via the cygwin shell, the
    > easy solution is to start damn near all attachments with the
    > cygstart command, which will detect the file type (probably using
    > the extension) and start the right program for it.

Reading this a long time after. So Cygwin provides 'cygstart' ... in
what is it different from the 'start' command available from the command
line under Windows ? In fact, from the command line, you can even
specify :

c:\>foo.jpg

and your default viewer is lauched automagically.

For my self, using gnus under windows for eons, I have hacked this variable for a long time :

(setq mailcap-mime-data
      `(("application"
 	 ("vnd.ms-excel"
 	  (viewer . "\"%s\"")
 	  (type . "application/vnd.ms-excel"))
 	 ("msword"
 	  (viewer . "\"%s\"")
 	  (type . "application/msword"))
 	 ("pdf"
 	  (viewer . "\"%s\"")
 	  (type . "application/pdf"))
 	 ("zip"
 	  (viewer . "\"%s\"")
 	  (type   . "application/zip"))
 	 ;; Prefer free viewers.
 	 ("pdf"
 	  (viewer . "\"%s\"")
 	  (type . "application/pdf"))
          ...
)))

Best,

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