From:	Owen	Date:	Thu Apr 24 00:11:37 2008
Subject:	Re: Opening a File in its Native Application

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:34:25 -0700 (PDT)
Lynn Etheredge <etheredge_lynn@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I would like to open a file in it's native application.  It doesn't have a specified extension, however, so I would need to specify the application somehow.  I saw 
> 
> system("start docname")
> 
> but this doesn't specify the application.  



I am not sure what you really want to do. 

As this is a 'cgi' list I presume you want to open up a file so it can be read on the web

And that file might be a MS "Word" document, in which case there may well be a perl module that reads Word documents

So could you elaborate a little more perhaps?



Owen