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Date:      Mon, 13 Sep 1999 10:31:51 +0100
From:      Dominic Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Cc:        Dirk GOUDERS <hank@musashi.et.bocholt.fh-ge.de>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: More press
Message-ID:  <19990913103151.B48248@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <xzp671g2rio.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
References:  <199909121250.OAA09438@musashi.et.bocholt.fh-ge.de> <xzp671g2rio.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 03:22:55PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Dirk GOUDERS <hank@musashi.et.bocholt.fh-ge.de> writes:
> > Oh, sorry -- my "browse-url-at-mouse" function made
> > 
> > http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/screensavers/answerstips/story/02c36562c23246242c00.html
> > 
> > of it...
> 
> Netscape uses commans to separate parameters to the OpenURL command.
> Fortunately, the API is open and documented, so there's nothing to
> stop someone from writing a small command-line util that does the
> equivalent of "netscape -remote" except faster and better.

If you follow the link from "netscape -help", you end up at:

http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/remote.c

Which is a small C program to do just that.  I really should turn it
into a port...
-- 
Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator

"vi has two modes the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesnt."
	-- Anon.


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