From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Rakestraw Subject: Re: OT?: viewing pdf as attachment Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:43:52 -0500 Message-ID: <20081118174352.64b84972@buster.rakestrawmornlocal> References: <20081118144032.5c2a1032@georgetown.edu> <20081118145609.62d5b485@johnrakestraw.com> <87myfwk6oi.fsf@kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L2ZIc-0007p9-UP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:43:58 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L2ZIb-0007oA-8U for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:43:58 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34630 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L2ZIb-0007o7-47 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:43:57 -0500 Received: from relay02.pair.com ([209.68.5.16]:2101) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L2ZIa-00058d-SY for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:43:57 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87myfwk6oi.fsf@kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi -- > there have been several threads to this concern. Maybe searching them > helps a little (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/). > This here seemed to help in a similar case (~/.mailcap): > Thanks, Sebastian and Bernt. It didn't occur to me that it could be a mailcap issue because the system knows which application to use -- it opens acroread, but for some reason doesn't open the pdf file. I'll check ~./mailcap (and /etc/mailcap) when I'm back on that machine tomorrow. -- John Rakestraw