Win 2000 : Open Files With Word & Excel From The Command Line

[Steve <beforewisdom at yahoo dot com>]

Hi;

I'm on win 2000 and I am using cygwin.

I put script files called "word" and "excel" in my /usr/local/bin. These
files have the path to the ms word and ms excel executables.

They work, they bring up the apps, but I can't get the apps to take
command line arguments to open remote files.

For example:

cygwin> word c:/docs/memos/parking/myfile.doc

opens only word not "myfile.doc".

Is there any way around this?  I would love to be able to do this as it
is monumentally faster then scrolling through a file dialog box or
explorer to open up a file.

Thanks

Steve



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