Definition: launcher: Selects which program to launch according to extension. Launcher maps files to MIME types via filename extension or output from the Unix "file" command. If there are more than one handler defined for a given MIME type it presents you with a GUI giving you a choice of which one to use.

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Author: Binh Nguyen linuxfilesystem(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)au
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