Subject: url-viewer configuration

From: Don Newcomer <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 16:11:32 -0400 (EDT)

I'm running Pine 4.02A and was able to set up a basic URL viewer by just putting
Netscape in there.  However, I didn't like having it create a new window and
having to answer the "You're already running Netscape, do you want to continue"
question.  Soooo, Netscape allows you to send commands to another running
Netscape.  From a shell prompt I can type

	netscape -remote 'openURL(http:www.dickinson.edu)'

and my running browser flips to our college home page.  If I modify my
configuration so that it looks like this:

	url-viewer=netscape -remote 'openURL(_URL_)'

it still tries to open a new browser.  It doesn't even work if I hardcode a real
URL in there.  What am I missing here?  Thanks in advance.

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Don Newcomer                                            Dickinson College
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From: Jeff Goswick <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 15:03:50 -0600 (MDT)

You need to put double quotes (") around the entire command, then should 
work.  I've got mine set to  (including quotes!)

  "/usr/local/bin/netscape -noraise -remote 'openURL ( _URL_ ,new-window)'"

Good luck!
Jeff

On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Don Newcomer wrote:

> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 16:11:32 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Don Newcomer <[email-masked]>
> To: Pine Discussion Forum <[email-masked]>
> Subject: url-viewer configuration
>

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From: Don Newcomer <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 09:29:06 -0400 (EDT)

Yup, that did the trick!  Thanks a million, Jeff.