Re: [Bug: 21.5-b22] Backtrace with function `browse-url'

Franz> Hm. There is no program `open'. I guess, it is supposed to work Franz> as follows on MS Windows: The action `open' is provided by the Franz> shell (Explorer ?). Then you'll have to change either the specification in browse-url or change your shell to one that provides "open". Alternatively, it's probably trivial to implement "open" as a program (I know that Mac OS X does, simply by passing the command-line argument to the Finder). If someone does, and it's not already part of some well-known suite, I would certainly support adding it to XEmacs's suite of external utilities. Franz> When called, the shell looks in the Windows Franz> registry for the program that can be used to open the specified Franz> resource. Which program is started depends on the file type (or Franz> file extension) of the specified resource and this information is Franz> buried in the registry. Therefore I think that the error Franz> message is misleading. Sure, but it's not XEmacs's problem. XEmacs currently doesn't do message translation, so that message must have come from the shell. Ie, XEmacs called a shell, and told it to execute the command "open". The shell told it that no such program exists. How is XEmacs supposed to know that "open" is actually a builtin that only exists in certain shells? -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.