Hi all,

I have come up with a really simple solution for something that bugged me
since some time.

When in Pine I hit a URL that I want to see, default behaviour is that
Pine runs Netscape. Okay by itself, but as long as netscape is running,
Pine is occupied in watching when it is finished. So while waiting for a
page to load I could not read mail.

I came up with this little workaround:

  #!/bin/sh
  /usr/bin/netscape-navigator -no-about-splash $1 &

I call it 'netrun', and stuck it in my ~/bin directory (which is in my
personal path of course). Then I told Pine to run ~/bin/netrun as the
browser. And voila, no more problem, netrun launches netscape with the
URL, and then returns to Pine, fast as a flash :)

Perhaps someone now laughs and will tell me there's a much easier
solution, but I am glad I got this one going! Feel free to use it if you
like it. (Don't forget to chmod +x it.)

Paul

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and don't pet the sweaty things.

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