Hi,
I would like to create a button on a web page that opens a file in it's application (ie. open a scientific file in it's native application).  My file does not have an extension and so I think it probably will not open automatically with the system("start docname") command.
Thank you,
Lynn

----- Original Message ----
From: Owen pcug.org.au>
To: beginners-cgi@perl.org
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 11:11:37 PM
Subject: Re: Opening a File in its Native Application

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:34:25 -0700 (PDT)
Lynn Etheredge yahoo.com> wrote:

I am not sure what you really want to do.

On Friday April 25 2008 9:09 am, Lynn Etheredge wrote:

Are you looking to embed your application inside the client side web page
or are you looking to launch the application on the server passing it
parameters such as a input file and then collecting whatever it outputs
(results) for display on the web page ?

very different techniques are involved , you may want to take a look at
AJAX /JavaScript to accomplish this or a combination of AJAX/JSON and Perl.

Your first step in requesting help should be to lay out just what your trying
to accomplish .

On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 10:09 -0700, Lynn Etheredge wrote:

The start by extension is a feature of the DOS shell. You can start any
program that way.

start myprog filename

Ken