Opening a file with system default application

[Cameron Laird]

In article <pan.2006.06.23.17.31.46.251740 at gmx.net>,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch  <bj_666 at gmx.net> wrote:
>In <1151081172.418493.190730 at i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
>BartlebyScrivener wrote:
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>>>> It would probably break like mad under *nix
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>> I bet it would work the same way on linux or os x; it's the equivalent
>> of double-clicking on the file.
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>No it doesn't work.  Double clicking is not an OS thing but a a GUI thing.
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HOWEVER this is just the question Portland <URL:
http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/ > is designed
to answer.  If you can wait a few weeks, I'll publish
an article focused almost exactly on the topic at
hand.