is there any way to open a pdf doc from slick c code

[Graeme]

Is there any way to open a pdf doc from slick c code?

shell("abc.pdf") doesn't work.

[patrick]

I don't see anything that looks up the document type handler outside of some browser specific code.

On Windows you can use shell("start FILENAME"), and on the Linux shell("xdg-open FILENAME").    And it looks like shell("open FILENAME") for OSX.

So something like this:

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   filename := "~/Books/ModernRobotics.pdf";
   cmd := "";
   if (_isWindows()) {
      cmd = 'start';
   } else if (_isLinux()) {
      cmd = 'xdg-open';
   } else {
      cmd = 'open';
   }
   rc := shell(cmd' '_maybe_quote_filename(filename));


[Graeme]

great, thanks.