X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <43F4C6BB.CD5E7292@dessent.net> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:38:51 -0800 From: Brian Dessent MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: gurl (call browser and it an URL) References: <43F4C40C.F138147B@dessent.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com 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 Brian Dessent wrote: > 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. And, on top of that, if you must refer to something in "Program Files" you need to realize that it can be on any drive and its spelling will depend on the localization of Windows, so it is almost always a bad idea to hardcode "c:\program files" anywhere. Better would be to use $(cygpath "$PROGRAMFILES"), but in this case assuming the user wants to use IE would be inexcusably bad, so cygstart is where it's at. :) Brian -- 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/