[Bf-committers] url handlers / help-system / *nix

[john tuffen]

Quoting Jean-Luc Peurière <jlp@nerim.net>:

> 
> Le 6 mai 04, à 01:28, Kent Mein a écrit :
> 
> > In reply to Daniel Fairhead (madprof@uk2.net):
> 
> On Os X just pass 'open <fully qualified URL>' to a shell, and
> the default browser set in internet preferences will fire.
> 
> No need to bother with an env var, this is handled at system level.
> 

Similarly, for Windows this fires off a browser from within a C program...

  system("cmd /C \"start http://xx.xx.xx/\"");

john..

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