[17272] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.3.17: nmh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard S. Tibbetts III)
Fri Oct 15 14:55:15 1999
Message-Id: <199910151855.OAA01897@mary-kay-commandos.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 14:55:06 -0400
From: "Richard S. Tibbetts III" <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
System name: mary-kay-commandos.mit.edu
Type and version: SPARC/5 8.3.17 (with mkserv)
Display type: cgsix
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: unknown
What were you trying to do?
View an attached msword file in a mail messagee. The filename in
the mail had spaces in it. (`PhD Invite.doc') Note that this problem
was found by a user, I was in SIPB at the time, and helped the user
to find a workaround.
What's wrong:
Showed the plain text of the message, then tried to show the
attachment, and exited with an error message that mswordview had
exited with an error.
What should have happened:
The file should have been displayed using the standard mswordview
| lynx combination.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
If you feed lynx a filename with spaces in it on the command
line, it doesn't deal, even if you quote the spaces. I think that is
what caused the lossage. I was able to get around this by using `show
-nos | metamail' and specifying a filename without spaces, then using
mswordview and lynx.
thanks,
tibbetts
