Thank you VERY much. That worked perfectly for me!
Murray Strome
John Aldrich wrote:
>
> On Thu, 09 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> > I would like to automatically open MS Office documents with Star Office
> > and WordPerfect documents with WP. In Preferences/Applications, I can
> > select and edit the relevant section. If I put in the pointer to the
> > Application, it opens OK, but the file is not opened. I think I need
> > something else (%h or %p appear in some of the items already filled in
> > by Netscape). It has been too long since I used UNIX to remember how to
> > tell the application to open the file.
> >
> Ok...I got tired of having to save a PDF to a local file,
> then open it with xpdf. Here's what I did, and this should
> be applicable to your situation:
> I told Netscape to open "portable document files" with the
> application "/usr/bin/xpdf %s". I would think that you
> would be able to do the same with *.doc and *.wpd files.
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