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On 28 Feb 2001, Didier Verna wrote:

> What still bothers me in this solution is that we're somewhat doing
> the shell's job in understanding and processing its quoting
> syntax. That still remains affordable in those simple cases,
> however.

Yes.  There needs to be an agreement between different programs on
what should be in ~/.mailcap.  Maybe comp.mail.mime is the right place
to discuss that?

Failing any other possibility, we could either decide to do whatever
the metamail package does, or we could decide to do the Right Thing
(tm) -- having Gnus quote the file names.

Thoughts?

kai
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