Re: Opening a foreign file from Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg78891] Re: Opening a foreign file from Mathematica
- From: "tom_toad at telus.net" <tom_toad at telus.net>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:15:44 -0400 (EDT)
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Hello! I read these posts about linking to "foreign" files with
great interest. I have wondered about hyperlinking to non Mathematica files
for some time, I wish I had known about this sooner.
On my Mac, I created a Mathematica file, a toplevel folder, and
inside it, a Data folder to hold the files I wanted to link to. for
the sample below, that file was called test.gsp (A Geometer's
Sketchpad file)
This worked perfectly, I was thankful for David's response.
However, I did find that if the "toplevel" folder name had spaces, it
didn't work. I could make it very long, no problem, but as soon as
the name had spaces, it didn't work. Is that the expected
behavior?
I appreciate this group and the input provided.
Sincerely, Tom De Vries
dir = DirectoryName[ToFileName["FileName" /. NotebookInformation[
]]];
subdir = "Data";
filepath = ToFileName[{dir, subdir}, "test.gsp"];
fileLink = StringJoin["file://", filepath];
NotebookLocate[{URL[fileLink], None}];