On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:04, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote:
> I was asked recently by a teacher "How do I view this pdf file"?
>
> [Robert Fisher]
>
> From my limited experience I believe that most "data" files can be "opened"
> in most Gui's in most OS's by the default associated programme simply by
> (double) clicking on an icon.
> You cannot get much simpler than that.
Indeed, if it's set up correctly. In this case it didn't work as expected, and 
I wanted to know if acroread was installed. So, being a unix user of many 
years standing and thus used to the CLI, I wanted to try to execute it from 
there. 

-- 
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell

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