Re: word and mutt mailcap (OSX)

[David Champion <dgc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* On 2006.03.17, in <20060317185820.GA1596@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
*       "Holger Lillqvist" <holger.lillqvist@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On my Mac mini I have Word installed (sponsored by my employer..), and
> in mutt mailcap I want a line like this one (from my linux box):
> application/msword; ooffice %s
> but with word instead of ooffice. Does anyone know the syntax for
> starting Word from the command line?

I would expect 'open' to be your best choice for most non-terminal
document types on a Mac, but it opens documents asynchronously, so Mutt
will have deleted the tmp file by the time Office starts.  Thus you need
a script to make it persist.  Something like this might work, but I
haven't tried it.

    #!/usr/bin/env perl

    ## Obtain basename and extension, so that we can preserve the extension.
    $ARGV[0] =~ m!^(.*)\.([^.]+)$!;
    my ($base, $ext) = ($1, $2);

    ## Make a link, not a copy.
    link("$base.$ext", "$base.tmp.$ext");

    ## Open it asynchronously.
    system("open '$base.tmp.$ext');

    ## Spin off a child to sleep a while and remove the linked file.
    if (fork() == 0) {
        sleep(60);
        unlink("$base.tmp.$ext");
        exit (0);
    }
    exit (0);


Your mailcap entry will run this script instead of ooffice:
    application/msword; perl-script %s

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