Re: File attachments with -single switch?

[Earl Hood <earl@earlhood.com>]

On October 9, 2003 at 17:25, Peter Davis wrote:

> I occasionally use MHonArc on Windows XP to convert a single message to
> HTML for display.  This seems to work pretty well, except that
> attachments don't seem to be handled correctly at all.  For example, if
> I have a message containing a JPEG image, the resulting HTML contains:
> 
> </td></tr></table><p><strong>Attachment:
> <a href=".%5Cjpg00016.jpg"><tt>ImageTitle.jpg</tt></a></strong><br><em>
> Description:</em> JPEG
> >image</p>
> 
> When I hover over this link, it displays as
> 
> file:///C:/TEMP/.\jpg00016.jpg

This may be related to bug #5473,
<http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=5473&group_id=1968>.
The CVS version of MHonArc contains a fix for the '\' problem in
URLs.

> In fact, this file doesn't exist anywhere that I can find, and that's
> not even a valid file path for Windows.

How exactly are you invoking mhonarc?

When using the -single option, attachments are written relative to
the current working directory.

--ewh