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 21:11:54 -0700
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Alain Ravet wrote:

>What I'm looking for actually is either
>- a way to obtain the path of the default application used to open Excel
>files, and launch it myself
>or
>- have MacOS open the file with the default application.

Please read 'man open' in Terminal.app.  The 'open' command does the second
thing you asked for, "open the file with the default application".

  -- GG


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