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
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