In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > "open" is designed to provide Unix users with a single tool for > > dealing with the multitude of applications that deal with data files. > > Without open - or something like it > Under windows/dos, this is called start. Anyway, how do you determine > the application to use? Are you using something like MIME types?
And under OS X, it's called open, but it's not as powerful as what I've written. Nope - I don't have a mime type handy. I use the files extension. I do know those aren't unique, and have already located tools for doing more sophisticated determination of a files type. But that's for later. Thanks, <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.