From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/61650 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Goldberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Image view on winxp Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 22:21:18 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1136864504 16883 80.91.229.2 (10 Jan 2006 03:41:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 03:41:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+m10182@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jan 10 04:41:43 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EwAOC-0006xG-WE for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:41:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1EwAO9-0003Uy-00; Mon, 09 Jan 2006 21:41:37 -0600 Original-Received: from nas02.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.40]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1EwA4d-0003UP-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 09 Jan 2006 21:21:27 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas02.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EwA4Y-0000BC-AD for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 09 Jan 2006 21:21:27 -0600 Original-Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.46]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1EwA4X-0000xZ-00 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:21:21 +0100 Original-Received: from davestoy.homelinux.org.verizon.net ([68.163.165.251]) by vms046.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0ISU00NYCXBI5938@vms046.mailsrvcs.net> for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2006 21:21:20 -0600 (CST) X-Face: GUaHTH@nS>[7,ME@-gYZ4#Wl{z"99k@[[Y8AcP0x1paqu.,z9,XSV1WI>{q3f6^e5(zrit <4fV&VHhmE`uidRqtmG27;si9&r;#KSF~E#$%W8w(xdp)H4tW=\2XOk~3=@oGqqpj;m4xf Ow;y26396&,34@9#~4;@*S;E0cq"LM9N(us4P%F(Nxis'Vvfm9?KufH;:Q$dMa-QWGLR&K d0`LJZE8xb*>^yN>b]_NcU:E=Zn\1=#/(OS2 In-reply-to: (reader@newsguy.com's message of "Mon, 09 Jan 2006 19:56:12 -0600") Original-To: reader@newsguy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) XEmacs/21.4.17 (linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:61650 Archived-At: I run Gnus on WinXP under cygwin (locally built XEmacs) at work, but I think that as long as you can get your Emacs to start a cygwin shell (as opposed to native Windows CMD shell) to run your viewers, it doesn't matter if your Emacs is not compiled with cygwin. Unfortunately I don't know how to do that under a non-cygwin Emacs. 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. This is, of course, almost as dangerous as lookout except that unless you're really brave and set the right Gnus variables it won't happen automatically. So be wary of attachments, make sure you trust the sender, yada yada yada. Oh, and since you're talking about images, be sure to have applied the latest patch for the WMF hole that's been making the news lately. It's quite nasty. -- Dave Goldberg david.goldberg6@verizon.net