From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: johnbent@lanl.gov (John Bent)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:52:36 -0700
Subject: [sup-talk] missing run-mailcap
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Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Thu Jan 24 16:26:20 -0700 2008:
> Reformatted excerpts from John Bent's message of 2008-01-24:
> > When sup opens an attachment, it copies the attachment to
> > /tmp/sup-attachment-ID and then calls run-mailcap.  But sup knows what
> > name the file was attached as.  Could sup save the attachment to
> > /tmp/filename?  Or at least append the extension?
> 
> In 0.4 you should see the extension being preserved. Let me know if
> that's not the case.
> 
> So you should be able to simply call "open" on that file, rather than
> having to use your Perl script.
> 
Yep, just like you say.  Although, I think I do still need to have something
in /usr/bin/run-mailcap that parses 
"--action=view application/vnd.ms-powerpoint:/tmp/foo.ppt," and then execs
"open /tmp/foo.ppt."  But that's much better than having to guess an extension
from the mime-type.

John