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Re: lynx-dev help on EXTERNAL


From: David Combs
Subject: Re: lynx-dev help on EXTERNAL
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 15:04:35 -0700 (PDT)

Looks as if this too should go into doc or faq.


> From address@hidden Fri Jul 31 08:09:12 1998
> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 08:04:52 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Doug Kaufman <address@hidden>
> 
> On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, jaydeep desai wrote:
> 
> > Thanks, my problem was solved by changing the names of URL to http and 
> > ftp.
> > It appears that lynx checks for url of current link with url in EXTERNAL 
> > statement, any executes corrosponding command, if match is found.
> > 
> > However I was misguided(?) by following lines regarding url names in 
> > lynx.cfg:
> > 
> > # 3) To allow for new URLs to be used through lynx.
> > #     URLs can be made up such as mymail: to spawn desired applications
> > #     via the external command.
> > #
> > # EXTERNAL:<url>:<command> %s:<norestriction>
> > #
> > # <url> Any given URL.  This can be normal ones like ftp or http or it
> > # can be one made up like mymail.
> > 
> > What do these lines mean? What is "made-up URL"?
> 
> This means that you can make up a new type of URL and put it in a local
> HTML document as a link. When you type "." while positioned on the link,
> the command specified by EXTERNAL will be executed. So you could have a
> link:
> <A href="mymail://localhost/filename">Send Me Mail</A>
> Activating this would activate the command specified by:
> EXTERNAL:mymail:command %s:TRUE
>                              Doug
> 
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> Doug Kaufman
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> 
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