I found the error. It's the application that I've set to view URLS.
The .urlview in my home directory contains
COMMAND links %s &
I removed the & which fixed the problem. I tried it with "lynx %s &"
which works just fine.
Thanks guys.
Horace
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 09:42:45AM +0000, Barry Mitchelson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 07:19:42AM -0800, David T-G wrote:
> > When you hit Ctrl-B, you hand the message off to urlview and start it up.
> > You have to select the URL and hit return, though, to have it processed.
> > There is, IIRC, a configuration file which will control how urlview
> > behaves, including what browser to fire off under what conditions.
> >
>
> yes, you should find a .urlview file in your home directory
>
> the last entry in mine is :
>
> COMMAND netscape %s &
>
> which will fire up Netscape to view any urls found by Urlview.
>
> HTH
>
> Barry
>
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