The docs - for open(1) in particular - might suggest something along the lines of:
`open -a "Microsoft Excel" $foo` (or whatever the Excel executable happens to be called on the target system) But some versions of Excel (mine is ancient - YMMV with something newer than v.4) might refuse to open files with an unfamiliar type. -Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 2:20 PM -0700 9/8/2002, Ward W. Vuillemot wrote: >Not that I have an answer...but I have a similar problem. I can launch MS Excel and >have it open a OTF generated file from Win32. But Mac OS X does not do it....maybe I >should read the docs, but...if I backtick an `open /dir/to/msexcel` Excel opens, but >the redirect, or `open /dir/to/msexcel < $file`` does not work. That is to say, MS >Excel (Classic) still opens from within Perl on Mac OS X, but I cannot get it to open >the file itself...which is a pain in the butt. I figured if I got Mac OS X version MS >Office things might get rectified, but I have yet to get an upgrade.
