All,

Just to clarify, the statement:

if ${HTX_BROWSER} -noraise -remote "${remcmd}" > /dev/null 2>&1; then

in the browse script always produces the same result with netscape 7.x, if a
remote browser is running or not. So, a new browser is never started.

Steve.

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From: Starlink development [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Rankin, SE (Stephen)
Sent: 10 May 2004 13:54
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Subject: Re: Mozilla Firebird in USSC219

Mark,

The comments get removed at build/install time, (the original authors doing
I think). They should be present in the source.

Steve.

-----Original Message-----
From: Starlink development [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mark
Taylor
Sent: 10 May 2004 12:50
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Subject: Re: Mozilla Firebird in USSC219

On Mon, 10 May 2004, Peter W. Draper wrote:

> On Mon, 10 May 2004, David Berry wrote:
>
> > > Is that some extraordinary failure of Netscape 7.
> >
> > If I remember rightly, it's to do with changes in the way that the
browser
> > is remotely controlled (i.e. how htx loads a new document into it)
rather
> > than any problem with the handling of HTML.
>
> Actually, the "-remote openURL" stuff seems to be working, it's the UR[?]
> used on the command-line that no longer seems to be working:
>
>   % showme sun139
>
> really produces the command:
>
>   % netscape "/stardev/docs/sun139.htx/sun139.html#xref_"
>
> when netscape isn't already running (when netscape is running all is well
> and the -remote openURL works). This isn't understood, but the more
> correct:
>
>   % netscape "file:///stardev/docs/sun139.htx/sun139.html#xref_"
>

> is fine (with or without localhost). Mark is in charge of HTX I believe,
> fixing this must be preferable to carrying around an extra package that
> has to been maintained (Mark the Mozilla startup already does this fix,
> clearly the cores have been synchronized!).

funny you should mention it, I was just looking at HTX with a view
to CVS/autoconfing it.  The version in the most recent stardev is
V1.2-6, which includes a new Mozilla support stanza; the most recent
version I have in my (personal, local) CVS repository is V1.2-5.
The 1.2-6 version has a 'browse' script with no comments (taken from
the install dir not the original sources) - can anyone own up to
writing this?  I guess it was Steve, but possibly not.
I (or someone) needs to put the comments back.

Mark

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