Suppose I have the entire path name of a file on a network. How would I:

1) obtain a pointer to that file,

and then use that pointer to. . .

2) change the name of the file

and/or

3) open the file using its default application.

The primary task is to open a file containing a scanned document, peruse the file, and rename it according to the contents, (in addition to other tasks involving the file). So, I'd like to create a small application that assists in this. I have potentially hundreds of these file to do each a day.

Thanks for the help.