Re: Dispatching default application for file, cross platform.

Tim Golden wrote:

Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
How do I do the equivalent of clicking (in SuSe) or double clicking (in
Windows) on a file?

In effect I want to tell the OS - take this file and feed it to the
application that is registered for it.

os.startfile

Unfortunately this is Windows-only.
For KDE you can use

$ kfmclient exec yourfile

Peter
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