The problem is I don't know the name or path of the app. On OS X, this doesn't matter. But it appears I cannot ask Windows to launch a document and expect it to figure out which app to use.

Great.

Dan

On Jul 28, 2005, at 6:24 PM, MisterX wrote:

Hi Dan

It's funny to see MacOS - no-to-CLIs - crowd do it in Unix and not in DOS ;0

what you need is something like
c:\notepad <pathtomyfile>
or notepad.exe <path to myfile"
or <pathtoapp> <path to file> should work...

BUT this will block Rev... :(

so shell("start" && quote && appspath && docpath && quote should work...)

cheers
Xavier


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Dan Shafer
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 02:57
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Subject: [OT] Windows Command Help

In OS X, I can issue the shell command "launch" followed by a
document path and the system opens that document with the
appropriate app.

Is there an equivalent command/syntax for Windows? I tried "start"
but if I give it a document path, it opens a new command
window but doesn't do anything.

Thanks in advance for any help for the Windows-challenged.




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