revGoURL on 10.2.3

[Alex Rice]

On Jan 5, 2004, at 1:55 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

>  but I have not yet
> come up with a robust solution for launching a local file in the user's
> default browser in Panther. :(

How about:
get shell("open /path/to/file.html")

I've found the open command to be completely robust using from the unix 
shell. SHould be just as good from shell(). man open:

SYNOPSIS
      open [-a application] file ...

      open [-e] file ...

DESCRIPTION
      The open command opens a file (or a directory or URL), just as if 
you had
      double-clicked the file's icon. If no application name is 
specified, the
      default application as determined via LaunchServices is used to 
open the
      specified files.

      If the file is in the form of a URL, the file will be opened as a 
URL.

      You can specify one or more file names (or pathnames), which are 
inter-
      preted relative to the shell or Terminal window's current working 
direc-
      tory. For example, the following command would open all Word files 
in the
      current working directory:

      open *.doc

      The options are as follows:

      -a application
               specifies the application to use for opening the file

      -e       causes the file to be opened with /Applications/TextEdit

EXAMPLES
        'open /Volumes/Macintosh HD/foo.txt' opens the document in the 
default
      application for its type (as determined by LaunchServices).

       'open /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Applications/' opens that directory 
in the
      Finder.

       'open -a /Applications/TextEdit.app /Volumes/Macintosh 
HD/foo.txt' opens
      the document in the application specified (in this case, TextEdit).

       'open -e /Volumes/Macintosh HD/foo.txt' opens the document in 
TextEdit.

       'open http://www.apple.com/' opens the URL in the right browser.

       'open file://localhost/Volumes/Macintosh HD/foo.txt' opens the 
document
      in the default application for its type (as determined by 
LaunchSer-
      vices).

       'open file://localhost/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Applications/' opens 
that
      directory in the Finder.

HISTORY
      First appeared in NextStep.



Alex Rice <alex at mindlube.com> | Mindlube Software | 
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