Re: Dealing with e-mail attachments with names containing spaces.

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On Tuesday, April 26, 2011 05:46:57 pm Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 11:23 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 09:23 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > > If you get an e-mail whose attachment has spaces in its name one has
> > > problems dealing with the attachment in Linux. I found a way to deal
> > > with them (such as open a pdf file attachment) but I wonder is anyone
> > > has a more coherent way to deal with them than I have found.
> > > 
> > > My way is somewhat hoakie. I am using evolution to read mail.
> > 
> > You don't explain what these problems are, nor what your solution to
> > them is, so your question is rather hard to address.
> > 
> > poc
> 
> Ok, I thought the problem is obvious. It is the same problem one has if
> you apply any Linux program to such a file.
> In this case the attachment file was: Konstam plan description.pdf
> 
> When I try to open it with Adobe Reader it tried to open a file called
> Konstam which it claimed was a Binary file.

Seems to me that Adobe Reader (probably its launcher script) has a bug that 
doesn't work properly with filename that has spaces. Try opening it with 
something else, e.g. evince or okular and see if the problem is application 
dependent.

AC
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