[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell-beginners] Start file with associated prog (windows only?)

[Max Desyatov]

Bernhard Lehnert <b.lehnert at gmx.de> writes:
>> Windows has a command "start" which you can use e.g. via System.Process.proc.
>
> Thank you, Magnus - this is exactly what I was looking for. (By the way,
> someone should implement something like this for GNOME and KDE,
> too ;-) )

You can do that using MIME, look at /etc/mailcap, it already contains
all what you need to run appropriate process for exact MIME-type.  As
long as it's supported in your distribution.