On 08/13/2011 09:22 AM, José Ignacio wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 12:57, Paul McNett<p@ulmcnett.com> wrote:

>> On 8/13/11 8:41 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote:

>>>>> os.system("open %s" % document)

>>>>>

>>>>> Paul

>>>>>

>>> Paul: Is that Python? Maybe it would work on Linux too? Ultimately I

>>> want to run the application from a button click in Dabo just like I do

>>> in VFP.

>> The os.system() call is Python. The "open document" shell call is Mac. The equivalent

>> on Windows is "startfile". I don't think there's anything to rely on for Linux.

>>

> On most modern linux distros you can use xdg-open

> (http://portland.freedesktop.org/xdg-utils-1.0/xdg-open.html) it comes

> preinstalled.

>

Awesome!! Couldn't be more simple! Thank you!

Jeff

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Jeff Johnson

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