Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/02/16/15:06:43
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Brian Dessent wrote:
> zzapper wrote:
>
> > # c:/progra~1/opera75/opera.exe $url
> > c:/Program\ Files/internet\ explorer/iexplore $url &
> > }
>
> Yuck. No need to do this, just "cygstart http://www.cygwin.com" or
> "cygstart www.cygwin.com". This will launch the URL in whatever browser
> the user has configured to handle http://, rather than hardcoding it.
> This is equivalent to Start -> Run.
True, except cygstart won't do unconditional 'www*'->'http://www*'
translation if a file with that name exists (e.g., try "touch
www.cygwin.com && cygstart www.cygwin.com").
Igor
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