HarryT, think of the file AdamB is talking about as being like the registry in Windows. It serves much the same purpose... and is a potential source of infinite damage if tinkered with incorrectly. When you get shell access, this file is modified so that programs ending with .sh will execute when clicked from the Content Lister on the iLiad. Then you can run programs like FBReader which have been bundled with little shell scripts to start the software. But to have a document automatically start an application requires a modification to the Content Lister configuration file, which is risky. If an error is accidentally introduced to this file, it can keep any file from opening-- bad news. So we just open FBReader and then use it to open the file we want to read. As AdamB says, FBReader has a nice library function to keep track of files anyway.
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