Re: finding & launching MS-Excel from java

• Subject: Re: finding & launching MS-Excel from java
• From: Greg Guerin <email@hidden>
• Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 15:48:55 -0700
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Alain Ravet wrote:

>Q1/ how to find and  launch the installed MS-Excel on MacOS X?

Run Terminal.app and read 'man open'.

Then use Java to exec() the 'open' command with the full pathname of the
Excel file.  Be sure to use the String[] form of exec(), in case the
pathname has embedded blanks.


>Q2/ how to ..... on other platforms (Windows)?

The rought equivalent to 'open' on Windows is the 'start' command.

The exact command-line differs for W95 vs. NT lineage of the OS.  Read
'help start' in the DOS window.


Or modify example code from BrowserLauncher.  Search the list archives for
recent posts containing "browserlauncher".

  -- GG


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