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.
Hell even explorer . works! (I admit it doesn't address other things like POSIX paths and other applications though I rarely get the urge to start MS Access ;-) ).
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
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