Start file with associated prog (windows only?)
Hello list, I believe I am looking for a haskell equivalent to a python library function called os.startfile(...) which starts any given file with its associated program. http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.startfile says: "...this acts like double-clicking the file in Windows Explorer, or giving the file name as an argument to the start command from the interactive command shell: the file is opened with whatever application (if any) its extension is associated. [...] startfile() returns as soon as the associated application is launched." So to show a readme you just write: import os os.startfile("README.rtf") to show your programs documentation you just write os.startfile("documentation.pdf") and windows will decide which program to use to open a PDF. The must urgent thing I actually want to do is open an Internet Browser with my sponsors URL. Any good ideas? Thanks in advance, Bernhard
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Bernhard Lehnert
Hello list,
I believe I am looking for a haskell equivalent to a python library function called os.startfile(...) which starts any given file with its associated program.
http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.startfile says: "...this acts like double-clicking the file in Windows Explorer, or giving the file name as an argument to the start command from the interactive command shell: the file is opened with whatever application (if any) its extension is associated. [...] startfile() returns as soon as the associated application is launched."
So to show a readme you just write: import os os.startfile("README.rtf")
to show your programs documentation you just write os.startfile("documentation.pdf") and windows will decide which program to use to open a PDF.
The must urgent thing I actually want to do is open an Internet Browser with my sponsors URL.
Any good ideas?
Windows has a command "start" which you can use e.g. via System.Process.proc. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe
Am Dienstag, den 18.08.2009, 16:07 +0100 schrieb Magnus Therning:
Windows has a command "start" which you can use e.g. via System.Process.proc.
Thank you, Magnus - this is exactly what I was looking for. (By the way, someone should implement something like this for GNOME and KDE, too ;-) )
Bernhard Lehnert wrote:
Am Dienstag, den 18.08.2009, 16:07 +0100 schrieb Magnus Therning:
Windows has a command "start" which you can use e.g. via System.Process.proc.
Thank you, Magnus - this is exactly what I was looking for. (By the way, someone should implement something like this for GNOME and KDE, too ;-) )
Well, there is `xdg-open` command, which is not as well-known as it should be. OS X calls the equivalent command "open". I'm not sure what xdg-open does with executable files (Does it really make sense, in a unixy context, to just execute them?) -Isaac
Isaac Dupree wrote:
Bernhard Lehnert wrote:
Am Dienstag, den 18.08.2009, 16:07 +0100 schrieb Magnus Therning:
Windows has a command "start" which you can use e.g. via System.Process.proc.
Thank you, Magnus - this is exactly what I was looking for. (By the way, someone should implement something like this for GNOME and KDE, too ;-) )
Well, there is `xdg-open` command, which is not as well-known as it should be. OS X calls the equivalent command "open". I'm not sure what xdg-open does with executable files (Does it really make sense, in a unixy context, to just execute them?)
In Gnome there's also 'gnome-open'. % xdg-open /usr/bin/gedit Error showing url: No application is registered as handling this file Same behaviour for gnome-open. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe
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