X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:06:32 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: gurl (call browser and it an URL) In-Reply-To: <43F4C40C.F138147B@dessent.net> Message-ID: References: <43F4C40C.F138147B@dessent.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 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 -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/