[Pine-info] Pcpine has trouble dealing with .doc files

[Cornelius C. Noack]

I am using PC-pine, vrs. 4.64, and have the following problem:

   Although my system is Windows XP, I don't use MSWORD, but rather
   StarOffice (which is supposed to be fully compatible with
   MSWORD, and usually is, indeed). No MSWORD or any other word
   processor is installed.

   Consequently, when I receive mail with a .doc attachment and try
   to open that, pcpine complains

"Attachment MSWORD unrecognized. Try open by file extension (.doc)"

   I choose "yes", OKing the `choosing from a list'; at this pcpine
   immediately offers me the STarOffice writer. So far so good;

   [ side question: Since pcpine is smart enough to know that
     StarOffice is what I need (and want), why doesn't it choose
     that automatically in the first place? In other words: How can
     I teach pcpine to recognize an MSWORD attachment?? ]

     BUT: when I click the thus offered STarOffice writer, either
          that (or pcpine) complains that it can't find the
          corresponding temporary .doc file:

               "...\temp\im132802.d0c does not exist"

          Then, when I go through the whole process again in the
          same pcpine session (i.e. trying to open the attachment
          file), the second time around all works smoothly.

    What's going on?

ccn.
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