[olug] Question about associations

[Brandon Lederer]

As in something for the console.

On Sunday 08 May 2005 05:10 pm, Will Langford wrote:
> As in something for the console, or in your favorite file manager /
> window manager ?
>
> -Wll
>
> On 5/8/05, Brandon Lederer <brandon at tolkien-movies.com> wrote:
> > Does anyone know of such a program that does "associations" by
> > exstension.  As an example, in windows there is "start".   at the command
> > prompt, type in "start file.mpg" and it will open up the default
> > associated program with that file type.  Does anyone know of any such
> > program that allows me to configure the associations with various file
> > types, and it just goes.
> > for example, run xine with .avi .mpg .mpeg .mov
> > run xmms for .mp3 .wav
> > run acroread for .pdf
> >
> > etc..
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