Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: A few questions..... | Date | Sat, 26 Jun 1999 17:42:01 -0400 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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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.
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
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