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