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Re: Opening a file with a Windows App which is not in Windows File Association


Thanks for the info.

I use zsh suffix aliases, so I don't need to worry about "MS Windows"
file associations.  If you use zsh and set suffix aliases in your zsh
startup file, such as ~/.zshenv

Then all you have to do to view you file is
$ logo.jpg

#zsh will see the jpg suffix and find the application that you
associated with it in your ~/.zshenv file.  This is to me more
portable, in that I don't have to rely on "MS's" hash or data
structures...

You would need a function to as you kindly showed to change to an
explicitly different application (picture studio in your example.).

Regards

On 12/21/06, zzapper <david@tvis.co.uk> wrote:

I usually open my images with the wonderful irfanview http://www.irfanview.net/ so > cygstart logo.jpg

does the job

Occasionally I want to use Adobe Photoshop elements, like many Windows Apps
it wants the FULL path to the document and obviously in DOS format.
The following does the trick, and may be of interest to others

function pse()
{
# name : pse
# description : Open image with Adobe Photoshop elements
#             : (cannot use cygstart as not in Windows File Association)
c:/Program\ Files/Adobe/Photoshop\ Elements\ 2/PhotoshopElements.exe
$(cygpath -w $PWD/$1) &
}

--
zzapper
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