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RE: Cygwin apps talking to Windows browsers? openmoz for file URLs


...
> there's no particular jiggery-pokery needed to get a Cygwin app to launch
> a URL in a Windows browser.
>
> e.g. try typing
>
> explorer "http://www.google.com/";
>
> from your bash prompt, or if you want your default Windows URL handler to
> handle it by magic, you can do
>
> cmd /c start "http://www.google.com";
>
> (the start trick works in Win2K and XP, not sure about DOS-style Windows).

have a look at http://ostermiller.org/openmoz/ - especially since that
script also handles file URLs

I did some minor changes and now it also should run under cygwin
--> https://p4u.ch/public/cygwin_usr_local_bin/openmoz.sh


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