In NT you can use the start command with a URL. So to start a brower at a specific location:
system( "start http://jpw3.com/search.html"; ); Depending on how you have IE configured, this might start a new window. If it doesn't and you need to use a new browser window: system( "start iexplore http://jpw3.com/search.html"; ); Maybe I am not following. Depending on how you have cmd.exe configured it might leave a console window behind, I think this can only be eliminated by using a bat file instead of perl? Actually this probably is better suited to a batch file, if you are just exec'ing. At Thursday, 31 January 2002, "Alan C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >My oversight, I forgot to say that this would be on my own local machine a >Win 2k box > >Since I am sometimes in a text editor that has ability to launch a perl >file then: the handyness to get a url launched by using a perl script to do so > >Thanks. Alan. > >At 06:41 AM 1/31/2002 -0800, you wrote: >>I believe that is not possible. A server side script can't launch a >>client's browser. >> >>Alan C. wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>>Win 2k with MSIE web browser >>>Whether or not my web browser is already been launched/opened >>>Can a Perl script do that task? Or a perl module? >>>Able to do without bringing up a command prompt as part of the process? >>>I was wonder if a script or module already exist. >>>Or, what would such written script look like? >>>Thanks. Alan. >> >>-- >>Ahmed Moustafa >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://pobox.com/~amoustafa >> >> >>-- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
