(NT Emacs) Excel files as attachment files: \ issue

(NT Emacs) Excel files as attachment files: \ issue

[Georges KO]

    Hello,

    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)))
-- 
 Georges KO, Taipei, Taiwan              gko@gko.net                 2001-06-26

Re: (NT Emacs) Excel files as attachment files: \ issue

[Simon Josefsson]

Georges KO <gko@gko.net> 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.

Re: (NT Emacs) Excel files as attachment files: \ issue

[Yair Friedman (Jerusalem)]

Hi,

With yesterday's snapshot it doesn't help.  The message is:
Displaying "C:/Program Files/Microsoft Office97.eng/Office/excel.exe" /e "c:/TEMP/emm.253NZv/general File 5.01 .xls"...

Excel show same error messages as before.

Thanks.

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Georges KO <gko@gko.net> 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.

Re: (NT Emacs) Excel files as attachment files: \ issue

[Simon Josefsson]

"Yair Friedman (Jerusalem)" <YAIRFR@amdocs.com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> With yesterday's snapshot it doesn't help.  The message is:
> Displaying "C:/Program Files/Microsoft Office97.eng/Office/excel.exe" /e "c:/TEMP/emm.253NZv/general File 5.01 .xls"...
> 
> Excel show same error messages as before.

Maybe it doesn't like WSP as well?  If so, try adding
`mm-file-name-delete-whitespace' to `mm-file-name-rewrite-functions'.

Perhaps it's easier to debug this by trying to run the above at the
prompt and modify the command until it works and then try to get Gnus
to invoke that command.

Re: (NT Emacs) Excel files as attachment files: \ issue

[Yair Friedman (Jerusalem)]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Perhaps it's easier to debug this by trying to run the above at the
> prompt and modify the command until it works and then try to get Gnus
> to invoke that command.
The only thing that is needed is the reverse slashes.

Maybe there is an uncommitted patch missing?

I have yesterday's snapshot mm-file-name-rewrite-functions is referenced
only in mm-save-part, and reverse is not defined anywhere.