Re: [dabo-users] Shellexecute

Author: Roger Gammans

Posted: 2011-08-13 at 10:48:13

On Sat, 2011-08-13 at 07:23 -0700, Jeff Johnson wrote:

> I have a VFP application that will open up a document in its native

> application by using shellexecute in the button click. I would like to

> add that same ability on Mac & Linux. Most of them are PDF or XLS and

> occasionally DOC. Is that possible?

Probably. On linux there is a mailcap file which sort of contains the

same sort of information as the shellexecute registry keys do in windows

man run-mailcap

for more information.

It may be installed on the Mac as well but I don't rightly know.

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Roger Gammans <roger@computer-surgery.co.uk>

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