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 Using HTX to Control a WWW Browser

If you have used the showme command to obtain a URL for a document (see above), one possible way of using this might be to save it and pass it back to showme later on, using the -u option for displaying a document by URL:

showme -u url

Of course, the URL you give need not have come from showme in the first place -- any URL that your WWW browser can handle would be acceptable.

You can also supply the name of a local file using the -f switch, thus:

showme -f filename

Because you can give relative file names to showme, this is often an easier way of viewing a file interactively than typing its full path into the browser.

These examples illustrate how showme provides a convenient and uniform interface for ``remotely controlling'' a WWW browser, permitting you to display any WWW document for which you have a URL or file name.



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HTX Hypertext Cross-Reference Utilities
Starlink User Note 188
R.F. Warren-Smith
6th January 1998
E-mail:rfws@star.rl.ac.uk