[Rd] help system does not work (PR#499)

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Thomas Lumley <thomas@biostat.washington.edu> writes:


> However, to start in a xterm you need to be a bit clever. The browser is
> invoked as
>  
> browser URL &
> 
> and you will probably need a script to set up lynx in a xterm in such a
> way that it opens the file and stays open. The first four things I tried
> didn't work.

Actually, the real problem is that it is getting passed

 -remote openURL(file:/long/and/winded/path/ls.html)

so you'd need to feed it to something (perl?) to extract the actual
URL. Then just use "xterm -e lynx $URL".
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