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

[Wynfield Henman]

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) &
> }
>
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