[pmmail-list] PMMail/2... other issues

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> Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 14:31:41 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Kris Sorem Sr" <norseman@humboldt1.com>
> Subject: ~Re: PMMail/2... other issues
> 
> On Sat, 07 Apr 2001 14:53:56 +0000, 
raphaelt@att.net wrote:
> 
> >1) I'm having a hard time getting batchfiles to 
> >run under MIME associations.  I can't remember 
if 
> >I've ever gotten this working, but -- what I'd 
> >most like to do is use "antiword" to translate 
> >Word files into something else.  I've got a 
> >batchfile called "antiword2.cmd" that contains 
the 
> >following:
> 
> Cmd files under OS2 are text-based files 
interpreted by the Rexx
> interpreter. Only binary application executables 
can be specified and run
> by MIME association. In your MIME association 
you can specify
> /antiword.exe/ but not a Rexx cmd file that 
calls it.
> >

Actually I think .cmd files must call Rexx, and if 
they don't they're simply OS/2 batchfiles, but 
yes, I see what you're saying.  

Having antiword.exe as the program to be called 
avails me naught since it outputs to stdout.  I 
would like to call antiword.exe and set the 
"parameters" at least to pipe the output to 
another file:

%s>stink.txt

but this doesn't work.  

I wish this weren't so difficult, but as yet I 
can't find an elegant kludge.  And using a Rexx 
filter on all my incoming mail for every one in a 
hundred which contains a Word file isn't really 
sensible, of course -- especially since I don't 
really wish the procedure to work automatically, 
but instead simply on an as-needed basis.

Obviously I can simply unattach each file manually 
and then do the antiword thing, as I've been 
doing... it's not such a big deal, but it seems 
silly that I can't have a batchfile function as an 
executable would.

...

> If the actual message files exist then most 
likely the folder.ini or
> folder.bag file(s) have been corrupted. Close 
PMMail, try deleting the
> folder.bag file in the effected folder, restart 
PMMail and if necessary -
> reindex.

Yes, I know this is the workaround, and I've been 
using it for four or five years now.  I was 
actually reporting it as a bug in case it hadn't 
been reported already.

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