Re: Opening a file with a Windows App which is not in Windows File Association

Thanks for the info. I use zsh suffix aliases, so I don't need to worry about "MS Windows" file associations. If you use zsh and set suffix aliases in your zsh startup file, such as ~/.zshenv Then all you have to do to view you file is $ logo.jpg #zsh will see the jpg suffix and find the appli

Opening a file with a Windows App which is not in Windows File Association

I usually open my images with the wonderful irfanview http://www.irfanview.net/ so > cygstart logo.jpg does the job Occasionally I want to use Adobe Photoshop elements, like many Windows Apps it wants the FULL path to the document and obviously in DOS format. The following does the trick, and