Yeah, and "cygstart" will even understand POSIX paths and translate them for you... ;-) Igor
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Seth Rubin wrote: > This may not apply, (sorry haven't been following thread) but in case you > didn't know... > > the START command under Windows will open a file according to its extension. > E.g. > > start xyz.xls -- opens xyz.xls in Excel > start xyz.doc -- opens xyz.doc in Word > start xyz.htm -- opens xyz.htm in Internet Explorer (or whichever browser is > registered...) > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of steve > Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 2:01 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Opening Files In Excel & Word On 2000 > > > Hi; > > I've made some scripts that enable me to open Word & Excel from bash on > Win 2000. > > The problem is I can't get either app to open the file I type on the > command line with the name of my script :). > > Does anyone have scripts for opening files with Word and/or Excel from > the command line? > > Thanks in advance > > Steve -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/