Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Scripts for calling Internet Explorer,Explorer,Word,Access,Excel from Cygwin Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 14:28:50 -0700 Lines: 52 Message-ID: References: <0rkp90dusb7ll3gneurrim73sk27nqdaic AT 4ax DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: h-67-102-25-114.lsanca54.covad.net User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) In-Reply-To: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Sat, 8 May 2004, zzapper wrote: > >> Hi >> With help from this NG have created the following scripts, I think >> they are very useful especially wexp. (Paths to various apps on your >> PC may vary of course). Excepting wexp all require a filename as >> parameter eg > wmdb test.mdb >> >> wexp : Launch Windows Explorer with correct "Windows" path >> wint : Launch Internet Explorer with correct "Windows" path >> wop : Launch Opera with correct "Windows" path >> wpdf : Launch Acrobat Reader with correct "Windows" path >> wxls : Launch Excel with correct "Windows" path >> wdoc : Launch Word with correct "Windows" path >> wmdb : Launch Access with correct "Windows" path > > > David, > > I hate to rain on your parade, but have you tried "cygstart"? If you have > the Explorer file associations set up correctly (i.e., double-clicking on > a .mdb file launches Access, etc), you should simply be able to say > > $ cygstart test.mdb > > to pop up Access. Similarly, "cygstart ." (or any other directory) should > pop up Windows Explorer. Hell even explorer . works! (I admit it doesn't address other things like POSIX paths and other applications though I rarely get the urge to start MS Access ;-) ). > You can even say "cygstart -x ." to open Windows > Explorer in "explore" mode. This should also work with the *full* POSIX > path to a file, whereas your solution requires that the file be in the > current directory... > > FWIW, the one useful aspect of your scripts is that you can only associate > the ".html" extension with either Opera or IE, so you'll need a script to > invoke the non-default browser. Note also that people may have their > programs, notably Opera, Acrobat Reader, etc, installed in different > location from that which you hard-coded into the scripts. > > HTH, > Igor -- I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks? -- 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/