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
