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
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