Program Applications and Attachments

[John M Price, PhD]

On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, John Angelico wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 15:17:28 -0700 (PDT), John M Price PhD wrote:
> 
> >
> >I have a strange problem with attachments.  Some work, others don't, and
> >I can't see why.  For instance,  I have one with a .txt extension,
> >properly opened by E.EXE, as noted in the settings.  However, I can't
> >open the attachment, and I get a WinOS2 error message (!) about invalid
> >path.
> >
> >I then typed the full path to the program, F:\EEE\E.EXE (which is on the
> >path in config.sys) and still, a WinOS2 error.  I moved the %s to the
> >program line, and I get, yep, a WinOS2 error.
> 
> Hmm, not sure about the other probs, but this sounds like the Attachment name is longer than 8.3, so that 
> Win-OS2 complains about the file name, rather than the program. This happens to me with long-name MS-Word docs 
> when I try to read them in the MS-Viewer (under Win-OS2).

But why should WinOS2 even be involved?  PMMail/2 is OS/2 native.  E.EXE
is OS/2 native.  And the application is properly listed in the MIME setup
page.

> How about dragging the attachment onto the Desktop, changing its name to 8.3 format and then trying to open it?

I went to the command line, E does not have any problem with the file.
The only problem is gettin gPMMail/2 to give it to E!


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