[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell-beginners] Start file with associated prog (windows only?)

Bernhard Lehnert writes:

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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 ;-) )

You can do that using MIME, look at /etc/mailcap, it already contains all what you need to run appropriate process for exact MIME-type. As long as it's supported in your distribution.