Re: Opening a File in its Native Application
[email protected] (Owen)
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On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:34:25 -0700 (PDT) Lynn Etheredge <[email protected]> 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