Re: another exec()-ish question
| From: | Jared Smith | Date: | Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:20:29 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: another exec()-ish question | ||
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Just exec() (or system or backticks... I don't remember all the
different ways to do it) the file itself... for example, if you want to
open a .doc file, just exec the .doc filename and windows will open it
with the default viewer.
Jared
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 10:00, Michael Dransfield wrote:
> does anyone know how to open the default application for an application
> type.
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> I potentially need to open Word, PDF and maybe excel spreadsheets.
> Cross-platform.
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> I was going to just use a browser to open the file and hope it will
> handle the filetype correctly. Is there another way? (other than
> storing the location to every viewer for every filetype)
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