Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com In-Reply-To: To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: RE: Mailing list redirection etiquette? Message-ID: From: Fred Kulack Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 12:53:23 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-IsSubscribed: yes On 10/06/2004 at 12:26:21 PM, cygwin-owner wrote: - ~/bin/firefox "$url" & + cygstart "$url" & [...snip...] which should be more generic across different browsers etc. --- end of excerpt --- Right. Changed that at the last minute and wanted to get my firefox plug in... I actually use "browse" which is aliased to cygstart when I use these startup files on Windows, but when I use them on Linux or AIX, then it gets aliased to something else. You know, oh crap, here it comes already... NQLGGOB (Nothing Quite Like Geeks Going Over Board).... 8-). "The stuff we call "software" is not like anything that human society is used to thinking about. Software is something like a machine, and something like mathematics, and something like language, and something like thought, and art, and information... but software is not in fact any of those other things." Bruce Sterling - The Hacker Crackdown Fred A. Kulack - IBM eServer iSeries - Enterprise Application Solutions ERP, Java DB2 access, Jdbc, JTA, etc... IBM in Rochester, MN (Phone: 507.253.5982 T/L 553-5982) mailto:kulack/us.ibm.com Personal: mailto:kulack/magnaspeed.net AIM Home:FKulack AIM Work:FKulackWrk MSN Work: fakulack/hotmail.com (replace email / with @) -- 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/