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From: Shankar Unni
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 18:26

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Ralph Steins wrote:

> I need a functionality similar to the "open" function in the
> (windows)explorer. "open" a file with the corresponding application. Is
> there something?

This is fairly windows-specific functionality, but at least on Windows,
you can easily emulate this by doing the following (provided that the
file extension is already registered with Windows):

  String[] args = { "cmd", "/c", "start", yourfilename };
  Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(args);

(You'll have to do some OS checking: for WinME, 98 and 95, you'll have
to use "command" rather than "cmd", but otherwise the same syntax).
--
Shankar.

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