From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu]
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Billinghurst, David (CALCRTS) wrote:
The following changes will enable access to html and pdf help,
using internet explorer and win32 acrobat reader.
[...]
There may be a better may, but this works work me.
Try "cygstart %f" for both HTML and PDF, with no helper scripts. ;-)
This will do the path translation automatically and open the application
associated with each of the extensions in Explorer (just like
double-clicking).
Igor
You are right. A very neat solution.
--- Fig.orig 2003-09-24 10:44:13.507721200 +1000
+++ Fig 2003-09-25 09:56:12.139120100 +1000
@@ -20,11 +20,11 @@
! This is for viewing the xfig html reference.
! For netscape, this command will open the help pages in a running netscape,
! or start a new netscape if one isn't already running
-Fig.browser: netscape -remote 'openFile(%f)' || netscape %f
+Fig.browser: cygstart %f
! pdfviewer - put your favorite pdf viewer here.
! This is for viewing the xfig how-to guide and man pages
-Fig.pdfviewer: acroread %f
+Fig.pdfviewer: cygstart %f
! Spell check program - put your favorite spelling check program here.
! It must write the misspelled words to standard output.