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To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
cc: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>,
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Subject: Re: Introducing gozilla(1). 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 19 Apr 1998 16:35:26 PDT."
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Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 16:55:55 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.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
             |
            Yes
             |
   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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