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Date:      Fri, 05 Feb 1999 16:02:55 -0600
From:      William McVey <wam@sa.fedex.com>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: remotely control netscape - howto ? 
Message-ID:  <199902052203.QAA13100@s07.sa.fedex.com>
In-Reply-To: Message id <199902051542.QAA07188@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> 

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Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>i know there is a way to issue commands to a netscape instance running
>on the local machine -- e.g. raplayer/rvplayer routinely sends msgs to
>a local netscape. I wonder, how can i do this ? Does not seem to use a
>TCP socket, so perhaps it is an X11 event sent to the netscape window ?

netscape -remote is a commandline interface to remote control an already
running netscape.  Complete protocol specs, and details on how to use 
the -remote option can be found at:
	http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/x-remote.html

 -- William

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