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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 21:51:35 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Seth Rubin <srubin AT thoughtprocess DOT com>
cc: steve <beforewisdom AT yahoo DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Opening Files In Excel & Word On 2000
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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 AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf Of steve
> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 2:01 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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

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