Re: Pine & Netscape

[rvollmert@gmx.net (Robert Vollmert)]

> Hello everyone,
> 	I've been playing with pine so it'll open a netscape window if I
> wish to follow a link from an email. I've read through the 'online' help
> in pine and even found a link on the netscape site about the -remote
> (http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/x-remote.html) argument to control
> an existing netscape session. Since I usually already have a browser
> window open I'd like for pine to simply control that browser and open the
> new url.
> 	I've been playing with this for sometime now and have not been
> able to get it working. The following will _start_ a new process thus
> conflicting with bookmarks and lock files. It works but not what i want.
> 
> url-viewers	= _TEST("test -n '${DISPLAY}'")_ /usr/local/netscape4.5/netscape                             
> 
> 	Does anyone know of how to use the -remote argument or some other
> way for pine to open the selected url in the current netscape process?
> Thanks for any help in this. I'm not sure but this could possibly also be
> of interest to other pine/netscape users.

try netscape -remote 'openurl(http://www.debian.org/)' 

robert