Very Computer

Hi-

    Platform: Intel
    O/S: Solaris 2.7
    Netscape: 4.7
    StarOffice: 5.1

    When I click on an attachment to open it from a Netscape
mail message,  it opens successfully if StarOffice was not
already open.

    However, if StarOffice was already open, I get something
like "M0783928349180234.doc not found."

    It seems to be saving the document to the temporary
directory OK, it just can't find it.

    Any ideas?

-Bob

Without knowing how you have Netscape set up to pass it to StarOffice
I can only guess, but this much you can count on: Netscape deletes
the temporary file after the "viewer" exits.  Thus, if the "viewer"
waits around (starting StarOffice?), you're ok, but if it just hands
off the name of the temp file to a running StarOffice and exits, the
file will be deleted before the running instance of StarOffice gets it.
The solution would be to wrap the "viewer" with something that copies
the temp file, and hand that to the "viewer" and thus to the running
StarOffice instead.  Problem is that would just leave the copy of the
temp file lying around, unless you can come up with a way to handle that.
Maybe if each user were given a $HOME/.startmp directory, and temp files
were copied into there, and StarOffice was wrapped in a script so that
when _it_ exited, the $HOME/.startmp directory would be cleaned out.
That would probably do as long as one wasn't in the same account directory
simultaneously via NFS from multiple machines, and running StarOffice
with that wrapper from each.

But like I said, I'm totally guessing how the files get handed off to
StarOffice.  _Maybe_ it's not like that at all...

Quote:> Hi-

>     Platform: Intel
>     O/S: Solaris 2.7
>     Netscape: 4.7
>     StarOffice: 5.1

>     When I click on an attachment to open it from a Netscape
> mail message,  it opens successfully if StarOffice was not
> already open.

>     However, if StarOffice was already open, I get something
> like "M0783928349180234.doc not found."

>     It seems to be saving the document to the temporary
> directory OK, it just can't find it.

>     Any ideas?

> -Bob

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Hi-

    Thanks for your ideas.  I'll look into the wrapper thing.

    The way it is set up right now is through Netscape's
preferences.

    Under Edit/Preferences/Navigator/Applications, I have
the Word document MIME type (.doc and .dot) lined up
to

    /export/home/local/StarOffice/bin/soffice %s

    I got the %s through experimentation and imitation, I
gather it means pass the name of the attachment.

-Bob