Adam Wells wrote: > > At 14:02 -0800 12/10/02, bob ackerman wrote: > >On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 01:31 PM, Matt Morse wrote: > > > >>>also i'm interesed in opening a browser with a valid internet address > >>>as argument but i can't find out the syntax for mac os x - can anyone > >>>give a hand with that? > >> > >>You can use the open command (see the man page for details): > >> > >> open -a Internet\ Explorer http://www.cnn.com > >> > >>or, if you don't want to specify a particular app: > >> > >> open http://www.cnn.com > >> > > > >neither worked for me. > >first example opened explorer w/o trying to access the url. > >2nd example got 'No such file' prepended with current path.
ditto, exactly the same happened to me > Do you have a preferred browser set in the Web tab of the Internet > control panel? I tried this and it worked for me, launching my > preferred browser with the appropriate URL. i have a default browser (IE 5.2 /OS X). this will not launch unless i do open -a Internet\ Explorer.app http://www.cnn.com the url address won't load though thanks anyway ./allam
