on 10/04/2005 12:45 PM Dotan Cohen wrote: >>Not sure that's really what he needs. I'd rather suggest doing >> >>gnome-open phonenumbers.xls >> >>(For the actual file open.) No manpage for this tool, I think, but it's >>probably described somewhere in the help system. > Thanks, this is almost exactly what I am looking for. However, it uses > the gnome defaults. well, I'm not sure which defaults it is using, because when I do $gnome-open foo.txt emacs pops up, instead of gedit or whatever is in gnome by default. Is there any way to manage those preferences? -- regards, Oleksandr Korneta