Re: Scripts for calling Internet Explorer,Explorer,Word,Access,Excel from Cygwin

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Sat, 8 May 2004, zzapper wrote:

> Hi
> With help from this NG have created the following scripts, I think
> they are very useful especially wexp. (Paths to various apps on your
> PC may vary of course). Excepting wexp all require a filename as
> parameter eg > wmdb test.mdb
>
>  wexp  : Launch Windows Explorer with correct "Windows" path
>  wint  : Launch Internet Explorer with correct "Windows" path
>  wop   : Launch Opera with correct "Windows" path
>  wpdf  : Launch Acrobat Reader with correct "Windows" path
>  wxls  : Launch Excel with correct "Windows" path
>  wdoc  : Launch Word with correct "Windows" path
>  wmdb  : Launch Access with correct "Windows" path

David,

I hate to rain on your parade, but have you tried "cygstart"?  If you have
the Explorer file associations set up correctly (i.e., double-clicking on
a .mdb file launches Access, etc), you should simply be able to say

$ cygstart test.mdb

to pop up Access.  Similarly, "cygstart ." (or any other directory) should
pop up Windows Explorer.  You can even say "cygstart -x ." to open Windows
Explorer in "explore" mode.  This should also work with the *full* POSIX
path to a file, whereas your solution requires that the file be in the
current directory...

FWIW, the one useful aspect of your scripts is that you can only associate
the ".html" extension with either Opera or IE, so you'll need a script to
invoke the non-default browser.  Note also that people may have their
programs, notably Opera, Acrobat Reader, etc, installed in different
location from that which you hard-coded into the scripts.

HTH,
	Igor
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