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After a year of open source, Second Life looks ahead

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:00:00 GMT
A year has passed since Linden Lab, maker of the popular 3-D virtual world Second Life, released the source code to its Second Life viewer under the GNU GPL. In that time, a viable community of developers has grown up around the SL code, and the company is pleased enough with the success that it has branched out further into open source and open standards.

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gvfs-open

gvfs-open(1)							   User Commands						      gvfs-open(1)

NAME

       gvfs-open - open a file using the appropiate application

SYNOPSIS

       gvfs-open URI

DESCRIPTION

       gvfs-open opens an URI using the appropiate application.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       URI	Specifies the file location in standard URI format.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Open a local image file

       example% gvfs-open file:///tmp/example.jpg

       Example 2: Open a remote resource

       example% gvfs-open http://www.sun.com/

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables: NLSPATH.

EXIT STATUS

       The exit value 0 is returned regardless of success or failure.

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gvfs-open      Executable to open a file using the appropiate application

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-gvfs		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       gvfs-copy(1), gvfs-info(1), gvfs-less(1), gvfs-ls(1), gvfs-mkdir(1) gvfs-monitor-dir(1), gvfs-monitor-file(1), gvfs-mount(1), gvfs-move(1),
       gvfs-rename(1), gvfs-cat(1), gvfs-rm(1), gvfs-save(1), gvfs-trash(1), gvfs-tree(1), attributes(5), environ(5)

NOTES

       Written by Alvaro Lopez Ortega, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008.

SunOS 5.11							    25 Mar 2008 						      gvfs-open(1)

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