How to link from my pdf to a txt-file using hyperref

Question

Problem Statement. I am writing a presentation using beamer with links to files on my harddrive. Everything works fine with files in pdf-format. But: links to *.txt open the browser - and that's it. What am I'm missing?

Answer 1

This works for me. The log-file is opened (after a confirmation dialog from acrobat) in winedt, the editor set-up to open log-files. The log-file is in the same folder as the pdf.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
abc\href{run:test-ansinew.log}{log-file}
\end{document}

Answer 2

I think it's fairly clear that there's nothing that hyperref can do about this. Entirely up to the PDF viewer. I'm just answering here to attempt to move this question from the "Unanswered" list.