Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 21:51:35 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Seth Rubin cc: steve , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Opening Files In Excel & Word On 2000 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Yeah, and "cygstart" will even understand POSIX paths and translate them for you... ;-) Igor On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Seth Rubin wrote: > This may not apply, (sorry haven't been following thread) but in case you > didn't know... > > the START command under Windows will open a file according to its extension. > E.g. > > start xyz.xls -- opens xyz.xls in Excel > start xyz.doc -- opens xyz.doc in Word > start xyz.htm -- opens xyz.htm in Internet Explorer (or whichever browser is > registered...) > > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of steve > Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 2:01 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Opening Files In Excel & Word On 2000 > > > Hi; > > I've made some scripts that enable me to open Word & Excel from bash on > Win 2000. > > The problem is I can't get either app to open the file I type on the > command line with the name of my script :). > > Does anyone have scripts for opening files with Word and/or Excel from > the command line? > > Thanks in advance > > Steve -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/