Dealing with e-mail attachments with names containing spaces.

[Robert Nichols]

On 04/28/2011 08:44 AM, Armelius Cameron wrote:
> 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.

I see no problem at all opening such file names with Adobe Reader 9.4.2.

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