On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 21:40, Chas. Owens <chas.ow...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I thought Win32 could do something similar with the start command, but
> it doesn't seem to work, so you will have to know the right program an
> say something like this:
>
> my %prog = (
> xls => "excel",
> doc => "word",
> etc => "etc"
> );
>
> system $prog{$file_type}, $file;
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Well, it looks like you can just say
system $file;
on Win32 platforms and if the file has an associate program it will
open in it; if the file has no associated program a window will launch
asking what program you wish to open it with.
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