Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: From: "Ralf Hauser" To: Subject: RE: Cygwin apps talking to Windows browsers? openmoz for file URLs Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:40:07 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 ... > there's no particular jiggery-pokery needed to get a Cygwin app to launch > a URL in a Windows browser. > > e.g. try typing > > explorer "http://www.google.com/" > > from your bash prompt, or if you want your default Windows URL handler to > handle it by magic, you can do > > cmd /c start "http://www.google.com" > > (the start trick works in Win2K and XP, not sure about DOS-style Windows). have a look at http://ostermiller.org/openmoz/ - especially since that script also handles file URLs I did some minor changes and now it also should run under cygwin --> https://p4u.ch/public/cygwin_usr_local_bin/openmoz.sh -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/