In the event this helps anyone... I'm running GNU Emacs 21.2.1 and gnus 5.10.1 under Cygwin 1.3.22. I got tired of having to save attachments and then open a dired buffer and then launch via shellex. So I created a .mailcap and put the following in there: application/msword; cmd /c winword.exe "`cygpath -aw "%s"`" Lo and behold, MS Word attachments now launch. Lather, rinse, and repeat for other MIME types. -- Jason Dufair - jase@dufair.org http://www.dufair.org/ "Give a man fire and he will be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life." -- Terry Pratchett -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/