Yes. You can do the following at the prompt:
%> netscape www.anywhere.com
Hit the return and netscape opens to www.anywhere.com
To launch netscape from inside a java program you could always spawn a
process which runs netscape and then pass the url to it.
Barr
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Jacob Nikom wrote:
> Is it possible to force the browser to open specific URL?
>
> Jacob Nikom
>
>
> "Martin, Stephen" wrote:
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> > Use this, it's cross platform and works great!
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: V.Suresh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 10:32 PM
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> > > Subject: connecting netscape ?
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> > >
> > > At present, I am doing a stand alone application project, and I want
> > > an event to open up netscape with a URL. How do I do this?
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