Re: Launching a file via the "appropriate" app

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From: Chris Kelly
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 00:00

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"Eric The Fish" <rogNOSPAAMserpent@aol.com> wrote:
>Is there a way to make a java application launch a file via the appropriate
>application? In other words, say the file in question happens to be an html
>file, I'd like to just say to the platform, go open this file and have it
>launch Netscape or IE or whatever is installled to handle this file type.

>And especially, is there a way to do this while remaining platform
>independent? I know how to do this through the Windows API, but I suppose if
>other OS's don't support this functionality, I may be stuck forcing the user
>to configure "help apps" inside my application (yuck!)

You might want to try JConfig, which has this capability on Win32 and
Mac. See the following announcement, or go to:

  http://www.tolstoy.com/samizdat/jconfig.html

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