os.system? On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Vernon Cole <[email protected]> wrote:
> In gnome, I can click on a file and the correct application to open it will > be started. > In Windows, I can get the same functionality from the command line by > typing "start (somefilename)" > I can't seen to find an equivalent feature in Linux, so am beginning to > suspect that it is gnome matching up the file with its application. > If I were to start writing such a utility, where would I find sample code > how the GUI does it? Or is there already a POSIX command and I've never run > across it? > (What I'm actually trying to do is implement Python "os.startfile" on > Linux.) > -- > Vernon Cole > (sent from my 'droid phone) > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list > >
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