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

Max Desyatov wrote:

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.

Is there a command line interface for that? Or maybe a lib that's easy to wrap? If you want to query the Gnome MIME database (which is separate from /etc/mailcap) you can use 'xdg-mime'. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe