[18279] in Athena Bugs
Re: Emilio C Silva: Improvement on /usr/athena/bin/htmlview.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Fri Sep 15 13:30:17 2000
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 13:30:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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There are those of us who think URLs shouldn't HAVE commas. But, be that
as it may, this looks harmless and I'll put it in on Monday.
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Greg Hudson wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:29:20 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Emilio C Silva <emilio@MIT.EDU>
> To: ghudson@mit.edu
> Subject: Improvement on /usr/athena/bin/htmlview.
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> Hi,
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> (You are listed under "mit.edu/teamhtml/Athena/people.html" as
> doing "Athena bug fixing and reviewing", and your username is mentioned in
> the htmlview script. If you are not responsible, could you please
> forward this message ?)
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> I used htmlview (indirectly through Pine) to view:
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> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2614854,00.html
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> And I had an open Navigator window, which generated an error and
> refused to open the URL.
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> After some thinking, I came to the following patch to htmlview,
> which allows for commas in URLs:
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> 83c83,84
> < /usr/athena/bin/netscape -remote "OpenUrl($url)" && exit 0
> - ---
> > # Netscape complains on commas, e.g. zdnet URLs.
> > /usr/athena/bin/netscape -remote `echo "OpenUrl($url)" | sed
> 's/,/%2C/g'` && exit 0
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> (the last line is a single line, sorry).
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> It worked for me, please let me know if you found it useful.
>
> Emilio.
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