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    Posted: April 25 2006 at 10:48am
A little code snippet I keep adding to things:

    ESC = CHAR(27)
    STX = CHAR(02)
    CR = CHAR(13)
    URL = "http://www.cnn.com"
    CMD = ESC : STX :'<'
    CMD := "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE"
    CMD := " " : URL
    PRINT CMD

Change URL as needed.
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Thanks for the post. I think it's great when we post little useful things that we have found out about this great program.

I did something similar a while back and used it for being able to track UPS and FedEx shipments from green screen applications. I posted it here

One thing that I wasn't aware of, that Pete pointed out in that thread is that you don't even need the explorer pathname. Just the URL. It uses whatever is the default browser on whatever computer runs it. That way it will run universally on any system and not be program dependent.

Keep up the good work, and keep posting useful stuff here!
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Originally posted by LiveBlues LiveBlues wrote:

One thing that I wasn't aware of, that Pete pointed out in that thread is that you don't even need the explorer pathname. Just the URL. It uses whatever is the default browser on whatever computer runs it. That way it will run universally on any system and not be program dependent.


So it does - which is a bit annoying as on this Windows box .html files are set to open with an editor rather than a browser.

I'd better take another look at what the control codes are really doing.
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Any idea why just using the "http://xxx" works on some PCs but not others?? It looks like IE is the default browser on all PCs.
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I haven't run into that problem. So far it has worked on all of the pc's that I've tried it on.
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