Opening a File in its Native Application

[email protected] (Lynn Etheredge) Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:34:25 -0700 (PDT)

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Message-ID	<[email protected]>

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.  

Thank you,
Lynn


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