In gnome, I can click on a file and the correct application to open it will be started.
In Windows, I can get the same functionality from the command line by typing "start (somefilename)"
I can't seen to find an equivalent feature in Linux, so am beginning to suspect that it is gnome matching up the file with its application.
If I were to start writing such a utility, where would I find sample code how the GUI does it? Or is there already a POSIX command and I've never run across it?
(What I'm actually trying to do is implement Python "os.startfile" on Linux.)
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Vernon Cole
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