From: Damphyr Date: 2003-07-06T22:06:19+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] unclose 0.1 alpha gabriele renzi wrote: > il Sun, 6 Jul 2003 04:21:48 +0900, Joel VanderWerf > ha scritto:: > > >>Koen Vervloesem wrote: >> >>>I'd like to get some comments. I want to extend unclose to be used with >>>other operating systems if e.g. GNU/Linux or MS Windows have a similar >>>command as the "open" command. And I will support more protocols, like >>>ftp and scp. After that, I will package it in RAA. >> >>KDE has "kfmclient exec", which is very powerful. It's a shell interface >>to everything you can do with the KDE tools--download, ftp, http, pdf, >>or open any mime type with the associated app. > > > btw, windows has the dos prompt or run or whatever, just type in and > get what you want ;) > BUT this is a really cool script anyway > > Yeap, but you cannot do 'cmd http://some.or.other/file.pdf' and have the thing open up acrobat. Nor can you "execute" files and have the coomand box call the associated application. It could be interesting to see if you can have such an app read the associations correctly for all three window systems (KDE (maybe even Gnome), MacOS X and Windows). Can't think it would do much good for CLI application on Linux though. V.- ____________________________________________________________________ http://www.freemail.gr - ������ �������� ������������ ������������. http://www.freemail.gr - free email service for the Greek-speaking.