Re: Opening a File in its Native Application

[email protected] (Ken Foskey)
Newsgroups perl.beginners.cgi
Message-ID <1209164848.5678.2.camel@mordor>
On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 10:09 -0700, Lynn Etheredge wrote:
> 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.

The start by extension is a feature of the DOS shell.  You can start any
program that way.

    start myprog  filename

Ken
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