Re: How to goto URL from app [OT]

• Subject: Re: How to goto URL from app [OT]
• From: Nick Howes <email@hidden>
• Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 16:35:56 -0600

Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 14:17:44 -0700
To: email@hidden
From: Greg Guerin <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: How to goto URL from app

In my experience, it works better to run the START program directly:

case OS_WIN_9X :
params = new String[] {
"start",
s
};
break;

For one thing, you don't have to quote the URL. It works as-is.

For another, running START.EXE by itself won't display a dorky
command-window, which makes your program look ever so stupid, given the
defaults of the command.com window.

Sadly, START is a builtin on NT-lineage versions of Windows (NT, 2K, XP),
and puzzling out how to tell it to not put up the geekoid command-line
window was more than I could decipher even after playing around with it for
a couple hours. The price of innovation, I suppose.

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