[olug] Question about associations

[Will Langford]

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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