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obeyfiles and doubleclick

From Jim Nagel <jimnewsm13c@abbeypress.co.uk>
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Subject obeyfiles and doubleclick
Date 2018-06-25 14:41 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <a28bb70d57.jim@6.abbeypress.net> (permalink)

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Dumb question from an untutored smalltime dabbler:

If I put a local pathname into an obeyfile and then doubleclick it:
 - a Jpeg gets launched if that's what the pathname was, but
 - a PDF produces an error ("Cannot open <PDFtext$dir>.stdout for I/O 
redirection")

If I prefix "filer_run" before the pathname in my obeyfile, 
doubleclick works in both cases.

Why is this?  What is the principle involved?
What filetypes other than Jpeg and PDF fall into these two categories?


(I'm trying to establish a routine for when I save an attachment out 
of email to disc, where I would put just an obeyfile where the 
attachment was.)

-- 
Jim Nagel                                www.archivemag.co.uk
>> "From" address is genuine but will change.  Website has current one.

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obeyfiles and doubleclick Jim Nagel <jimnewsm13c@abbeypress.co.uk> - 2018-06-25 14:41 +0100
  Re: obeyfiles and doubleclick druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2018-06-25 20:36 +0100
  Re: obeyfiles and doubleclick Richard Darby <news@rjdarby.co.uk> - 2018-06-26 10:34 +0100
  Re: obeyfiles and doubleclick svrsig <chris@svrsig.org> - 2018-06-30 06:57 -0700

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