url gets truncated (was "launching web browser")

Klaus Major klausimausi at mac.com
Fri Jan 31 09:57:02 EST 2003


Konban-wa Cueto-san,

> Klaus wrote:
>  
> > Konichi-wa Cueto-san,
>  
> Actually, since it's 11:13 P.M. here in Nippon, it's "konban-wa" :-)

Thanks, i'll add that to my vocabulary of nihongo.
(will be item number 5 or 6, i'm just a gai-jin ;-)

Well, its 3:45 PM here in germany, that's why...

> > Try this:
> > ....
> >   if "NT" is in the systemVersion then
> >         set the shellCommand to "cmd.exe"
> >        ### put quote & quote into theTitle ???
> >        ### "" ??? Looks like this is the li'l troublemaker
> >        ### maybe you mean "put QUOTE & tUrl & QUOTE into theTitle
> >       end if
> >       get shell("start" && QUOTE & tURL & QUOTE)
> >       ### then "get shell("start" & theTitle)  should work
> > --
> Tried it, but it opened the command console instead of the browser. 
> HOWEVER, you did give me the idea of simply enclosing the url (i.e., 
> tUrl) in quotes thus:
>  
>      get shell("start" && theTitle && QUOTE & tURL & QUOTE)
>  
> ... and _that_ did work!

Fine, i think i did not realize that the 2 quotes were meant to be an 
empty argument...
 
> Thanks!!
>  
> Cheers and arigato,
>  
> Nicolas Cueto

Sayonara

Klaus Major
klausimausi at mac.com



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