At 1:31 PM -0800 12/10/2002, 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
>
>...and the site will appear in the user's preferred browser.

This is a 10.2 addition - the 10.1 version of open(1) didn't support URL access. And 
the first form appears to be irrelevant. If the file part of the command looks like a 
URL, the -a argument is ignored - it'll only pass the URL along to the default handler 
for that URL (in my case for http, OmniWeb) and leave the -a designated app unlaunched.

Switching around to different browser defaults, IE didn't seem to work properly the 
first time, but after quitting and relaunching, it worked acceptably well.

I wonder if issues with IE and /usr/bin/open were addressed in later Jaguar builds. 
With 10.2.2, it is working on my machine.

Just another set of data points.

-Charles
 Euonymic Solutions
 http://euonymic.com

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