On Sat, 8 May 2004 15:23:14 -0400 (EDT), wrote: >On Sat, 8 May 2004, zzapper wrote: > >> Hi >> With help from this NG have created the following scripts, I think >> they are very useful especially wexp. (Paths to various apps on your >> PC may vary of course). Excepting wexp all require a filename as >> parameter eg > wmdb test.mdb >> >> wexp : Launch Windows Explorer with correct "Windows" path >> wint : Launch Internet Explorer with correct "Windows" path >> wop : Launch Opera with correct "Windows" path >> wpdf : Launch Acrobat Reader with correct "Windows" path >> wxls : Launch Excel with correct "Windows" path >> wdoc : Launch Word with correct "Windows" path >> wmdb : Launch Access with correct "Windows" path > >David, > >I hate to rain on your parade, but have you tried "cygstart"? If you have >the Explorer file associations set up correctly (i.e., double-clicking on >a .mdb file launches Access, etc), you should simply be able to say > >$ cygstart test.mdb > >to pop up Access. Similarly, "cygstart ." (or any other directory) should >pop up Windows Explorer. You can even say "cygstart -x ." to open Windows >Explorer in "explore" mode. This should also work with the *full* POSIX >path to a file, whereas your solution requires that the file be in the >current directory... > >FWIW, the one useful aspect of your scripts is that you can only associate >the ".html" extension with either Opera or IE, so you'll need a script to >invoke the non-default browser. Note also that people may have their >programs, notably Opera, Acrobat Reader, etc, installed in different >location from that which you hard-coded into the scripts. > >HTH, > Igor TSDH (That Sure Did Help!) Igor, cygstart is new to me, looks cool.
cygstart http://www.cygwin.com cygstart --print README.txt cygstart --maximize ~/projects/whatever/design.doc cygstart -x . (BTW My script wexp is actually an official script from the doc), I will adapt my scripts to use cygstart and also to add the default endings such that I can type > wmdb test (no extension supplied or > wmdb test.mdb (typing all the letters of cygstart is way too much for me. might do me an alias tho!) zzapper (vim, cygwin, wiki & zsh) -- vim -c ":%s/^/WhfgTNabgureRIvzSUnpxre/|:%s/[R-T]/ /Ig|:normal ggVGg?" http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=305 Best of Vim Tips -- 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/
