On 08/13/2011 09:22 AM, José Ignacio wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 12:57, Paul McNett<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> On 8/13/11 8:41 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
>>>>>   os.system("open %s" % document)
>>>>>
>>>>>   Paul
>>>>>
>>> Paul:  Is that Python?  Maybe it would work on Linux too?  Ultimately I
>>> want to run the application from a button click in Dabo just like I do
>>> in VFP.
>> The os.system() call is Python. The "open document" shell call is Mac. The 
>> equivalent
>> on Windows is "startfile". I don't think there's anything to rely on for 
>> Linux.
>>
> On most modern linux distros you can use xdg-open
> (http://portland.freedesktop.org/xdg-utils-1.0/xdg-open.html) it comes
> preinstalled.
>

Awesome!!  Couldn't be more simple!  Thank you!


Jeff

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Jeff Johnson
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