Michael,

Thanks for your script :)  Am I correct to assume that I save it under
some name somewhere in my path and call it from the ~/.urlview COMMAND
line?

Thanks.

John


On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 01:55:00PM -0500, Michael Sanders wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 08:54:33PM -0500, John P. Verel wrote:
> > 
> > 3-The Red Hat sample.urlview has the following command:
> > to invoke for selected URL
> > COMMAND netscape -remote 'openURL(%s)'
> > I get an error message if Netscape is not open; works only with
> > Netscape running.
> > 
> > Question:  How to get to launch Netscape if not open and/or same
> > question for lynx?
> > 
> I call this script:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> if [ -n "$DISPLAY" ]
> then
>   if killall -0 netscape 2> /dev/null;
>   then
>     netscape -remote "openURL($1)"
>   else
>     netscape $1 &
>   fi
> else
>   lynx $1
> fi
> 
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