At 4:33 pm -0600 8/9/02, Charles Albrecht wrote:
>`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. Aha! That's the sort of thing I needed, and it does work with my Excel 1998 running in Classic. Even this works: ! open -a "SimpleText" junk.txt So at last Application names are cached somewhere with their paths. And about time too. Where? JD
