Need help with TCP/IP client access from Windows

Lars Marius Garshol larsga at ifi.uio.no
Fri Jul 30 03:28:24 EDT 1999


* Mike Fletcher
| 
| import os
| os.system( 'start %s'%url )
| 
| Which does whatever the user has defined as the proper thing to do with
| urls, normally, launch IE or Netscape.

* Eric S. Raymond
| 
| Really?  That sounds perfect.  Just for my information, what is `start'?

A program that runs another program (according to the help text I got
when I ran it at the command-line prompt with no arguments). However,
on my old Win95 box it doesn't understand about URLs.

--Lars M.




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