There's a thread on ISPF-L where the OP wants to launch a browser for a URL in an ISPF panel. Evidently he's looking for a terminal-emulator-specific solution and got several suggestions.
But how about running the browser on z/OS? Lynx is Curses-constrained. Are there any others, perhaps based on X11 and fairly portable? Or?: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xamj/ (I'm not going to experiment with it. How does z/OS Java display graphics, anyway?) But more generally, many OSes have terminal commands that take an object name as an argument and launch the "associated" application. For example, a browser for a URL; a file manager for a directory; or an editor for a text file. Examples: OS X "open" Solaris "gnome-open" Linux "xdg-open" Cygwin "cygstart" Windows ? A dismaying lack of portability. One might imagina a chain of #ifdefs such as: ... #if defined(__linux__) #define GUI_open( object ) system( "xdg-open " object ) #endif ... Ugh! There ought to be a standard. -- gil OS X "open" LInux ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN