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"John Cooper" <John.Cooper@citrix.com> writes:

 > ... I also get a lot of Word attachments from Outlook users with a MIME type
 > application/octet-stream, which I now manually save to disk and then invoke
 > `cmd /c start' on them from a zsh shell window.

If I select the "View Interactively" menu and enter `winword' when prompted for
Viewer, Word starts up displaying an empty document.  I seem to need to type
the following value for Viewer:

  winword<C-q><SPACE>%s

.. to get it to work.  Shouldn't Gnus add the ` %s' suffix by default?

Thanks,

    --- John