File::MimeInfo::Rox(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				  File::MimeInfo::Rox(3pm)

NAME

       File::MimeInfo::Rox - Open files by mimetype "Rox style"

SYNOPSIS

	 use File::MimeInfo::Magic;
	 use File::MimeInfo::Rox qw/:magic/;

	 # open some file with the apropriate program
	 mime_system($somefile);

	 # more verbose version
	 my $mt = mimetype($somefile)
	     || die "Could not find mimetype for $somefile
";
	 mime_system($somefile, $mt)
	     || die "No program to open $somefile available
";

DESCRIPTION

       This module tries to mimic the behaviour of the rox file browser <http://rox.sf.net> when "opening" data files.	It determines the mime
       type and searches in rox's "Choices" directories for a program to handle that mimetype.

       See the rox documentation for an extensive discussion of this mechanism.

EXPORT

       The methods "mime_exec" and "mime_system" are exported, if you use the export tag ":magic" you get the same methods but
       File::MimeInfo::Magic will be used for mimetype lookup.

ENVIRONMENT

       The environment variable "CHOICESPATH" is used when searching for rox's config dirs. It defaults to
       "$ENV{HOME}/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices"

METHODS

       "mime_system($file)"
       "mime_system($file, $mimetype, @_)"
	   Try to open $file with the appropriate program for files of it's mimetype. You can use $mimetype to force the mimetype.  Also if you
	   allready know the mimetype it saves a lot of time to just tell it.

	   If either the mimetype couldn't be determinated or no appropriate program could be found "undef" is returned.  If the actual system
	   failes an exception is raised.

	   All remaining arguments are passed on to the handler.

       "mime_exec($file)"
       "mime_exec($file, $mimetype, @_)"
	   Like "mime_system()" but uses exec instead of system, so it never returns if successful.

       "suggest_script_name($mimetype)"
	   Returns the list "($dir, $file)" for the suggested place to write new script files (or symlinks) for mimetype $mimetype.  The suggested
	   dir doesn't need to exist.

BUGS

       Please mail the author when you encounter any bugs.

AUTHOR

       Jaap Karssenberg <pardus@cpan.org>

       Copyright (c) 2003, 2012 Jaap G Karssenberg. All rights reserved.  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
       under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

       File::MimeInfo, File::MimeInfo::Magic, <http://rox.sourceforce.net>

perl v5.14.2							    2012-01-05						  File::MimeInfo::Rox(3pm)