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SubjectRe: A few questions.....
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In message <Pine.LNX.4.05.9906261455100.5173-100000@mhw.ULib.IUPUI.Edu>, "Mark 
H. Wood" writes:
+-----
| On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 androsyn@i95.com wrote:
| > On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 jerome@psti.com wrote:
| > > example: cat http://www.site.org/index.html | less
|
| consider this example:
|
| 'http://www.site.org/index.html'
|
| That is, run the object of that URL as a program, same as you would
| compiled code, or a shell script, or a Java class. That should be
| interesting. Someone's going to want it pretty soon, if for no other
| reason than that Win32 can do it:
|
| C:/> START http://www.site.org/index.html
|
| What it means on Win32 is to run your default Web browser and pass it that
| URL. This takes a pile of code in ShellExecute() and a fair amount of
| data in the (pardon my language) Registry. Think about it.
+--->8

That general capability strikes me as something to put into the shell, not
the kernel. Or maybe into libc, the way execlp() and execvp() fall back to
/bin/sh if the low-level exec fails.

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