> Hello everyone, > I've been playing with pine so it'll open a netscape window if I > wish to follow a link from an email. I've read through the 'online' help > in pine and even found a link on the netscape site about the -remote > (http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/x-remote.html) argument to control > an existing netscape session. Since I usually already have a browser > window open I'd like for pine to simply control that browser and open the > new url. > I've been playing with this for sometime now and have not been > able to get it working. The following will _start_ a new process thus > conflicting with bookmarks and lock files. It works but not what i want. > > url-viewers = _TEST("test -n '${DISPLAY}'")_ > /usr/local/netscape4.5/netscape > > Does anyone know of how to use the -remote argument or some other > way for pine to open the selected url in the current netscape process? > Thanks for any help in this. I'm not sure but this could possibly also be > of interest to other pine/netscape users.
try netscape -remote 'openurl(http://www.debian.org/)' robert
