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/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/
