Re: [Lynx-dev] how to associate file types with applications?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:

> At 08:27p +0000 03/12/2005, Thorsten Glaser didst inscribe upon an electronic 
> papyrus:
>
> > Well, for Unix it's
> > #XLOADIMAGE_COMMAND:xloadimage %s &
> > in /etc/lynx.cfg
> >
> > So I suppose it's similar for Windows.
> >
> > You might try
> >
> > XLOADIMAGE_COMMAND:c:\winnt\system32\cmd /c %s
> >
> > I can't check though, no windows ATM :)
>
> Going back to Unix <g>, what if there are spaces in the application pathname?
> Do they get encoded/escaped? If so, what method is used?

Lynx attempts to quote tokens when building a shell command.
The given example would be a problem since lynx cannot tell if

        /program files/bin/foo

is intended to be two tokens or one.  The expansion of the %s
should work properly though.

> thanks,
> -boo
> running Lynx on OS X, where spaces do crop up a lot
>
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