On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 08:54:33PM -0500, John P. Verel wrote:
> 
> 3-The Red Hat sample.urlview has the following command:
> to invoke for selected URL
> COMMAND netscape -remote 'openURL(%s)'
> I get an error message if Netscape is not open; works only with
> Netscape running.
> 
> Question:  How to get to launch Netscape if not open and/or same
> question for lynx?
> 
I call this script:

#!/bin/sh

if [ -n "$DISPLAY" ]
then
  if killall -0 netscape 2> /dev/null;
  then
    netscape -remote "openURL($1)"
  else
    netscape $1 &
  fi
else
  lynx $1
fi

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