Stuart Jansen wrote:
On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 18:46, Jeremy Stowell wrote:
My question is a command line question. on the command line in the shell. If
I type mozilla www.yahoo.com it will open up the mozilla browser and go
directly to yahoo.com. My question is how do you make other programs react
in this same way.
For example, I have downloaded Firefox, and use that as the default browser, I
would like to be able to type something to the effect of -- firefox
www.yahoo.com and be able to open the page with firefox.
This depends entirely on how the creator(s) choose to handle command
line options. On my system, firefox www.yahoo.com opens the URL
correctly. Perhaps mozilla was running at the same time? To save startup
time, they will pass of the request to each other rather than starting a
new program.
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I think that the real question here is how to make firefox a system
command to open up firefox- so instead of typing (this is on my system)
./programs/firefox/firefox www.yahoo.com, how do we change it to only
type firefox www.yahoo.com? This is actually a question that I have had
without finding an answer either. I believe that the answer is in
symobolic links but I have not really understood how to make them
because every time that I make one I have to be in the certain directory
in order to use that link. What could I be missing?
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