Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 16:55:55 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, shigio@wafu.netgate.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Introducing gozilla(1). Message-ID: <495.893030155@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Apr 1998 16:35:26 PDT." <199804192335.QAA01708@rah.star-gate.com>
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No, it means you don't need to launch it *again* when you want to send
a command to the netscape that's already there. In other words, it
goes like this:
Is Netscape already running? No --> Start netscape on URL
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Yes
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Send message to running netscape saying "load URL ..."
In my shell functions, I use stuff like this:
function url { netscape -remote "openURL($*)" } Which invokes
another copy of netscape long enough to send the already
fully-instantiated netscape a message. On my P6, it's so quick that I
don't notice the overhead, but I can see how that might not be true
for everyone and a command which *just* sends the protocol without
invoking an entire copy of netscape to do it would probably be a win.
Jordan
> I missed something . gozilla issues a remote protocol to what? netscape
> If so then you are running netscape.
>
> Amancio
>
> > > It runs the mozilla remote protocol, at least, so it does _not_ launch
> > > a 10MB binary. IMO, that alone is worth a whole new command :-)
> >
> > That's a good point - I'd not thought of that.
> >
> > Jordan
> >
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