Re: Opening a File in its Native Application
[email protected] (Lynn Etheredge)
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Hi,
I would like to create a button on a web page that opens a file in it's application (ie. open a scientific file in it's native application). My file does not have an extension and so I think it probably will not open automatically with the system("start docname") command.
Thank you,
Lynn
----- Original Message ----
From: Owen <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 11:11:37 PM
Subject: Re: Opening a File in its Native Application
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
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