revGoURL on 10.2.3

Alex Rice alex at mindlube.com
Mon Jan 5 23:34:26 EST 2004


On Jan 5, 2004, at 6:19 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> How about:
>> get shell("open /path/to/file.html")
>
> Same as "open location":  if the file has a type code assigned it open 
> in
> the assigned app.

You are right. But does it really matter? Why not just go with the flow 
and let the creator codes do their job.  ;-)

with "open" if you want to force a particular app you can do this. 
Maybe applescript can also

open -a /Applications/Safari.app /path/to/file.html

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