dreamstogo wrote: > Thank you vitamin and Dan Kegel. > > Here's what I had to do to get this working from within Infocentral. > > I created the run_prog as per the code from vitamin. I made it executable. > > I added a key to [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.xls] with data as "xcelfile" > > I added the key [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xcelfile\Shell\Open\command] > /usr/bin/run_prog /usr/bin/oocalc "%1" > > Note that the command is slightly different from that posted by vitamin. I don't know why, but it works. Now when I click on an excel file in Infocentral, oocalc opens the spreadsheet correctly. > > - I didn't need the /bin/sh > - I did need to fully qualify the run_prog path. > - I didn't need the \"%1\", I just needed "%1" > > This has also solved my spaces in path names issue - the "" I suppose. > > Now I need to create entries for .doc files etc. > > Thank you very much for your excellent help and speed of reply. > > Best wishes > > Hilary What I posted was a contents of the .reg file. You can't write "blah"foo"" in the regfile - all extra double quotes have to be escaped. Using /bin/sh will work on _ALL_ *NIXes. You can put "run_prog" anywhere on your $PATH. Hard-coding the location of "run_prog" will work for you only.
