[Techtalk] brower access from fortran 95

[Shirrell]

Conor Daly wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 09:46:30PM -0500 or thereabouts, Shirrell wrote:
> 
>>Does anyone know how to access a web browser from fortran 95?
> 
> 
> Hi Shirrell,
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by that.  Are you trying to interact with the
> browser or simply start a browser with a URL from within a fortran program?
No interaction, just point a browser at an html file

I am trying to move our help files from text to html -- driven this way by
the vagaries of Vista on the PC.  I can do this on the PC with a function in
the Winteracter library but I would like to be able to do it on our other
supported environments -- Linux and Solaris.


> If the latter, you could do something like:
> 
>         character*200  URL
> 
>         write(URL,*)'http://www.linuxchix.org/'
> 
>         call system('firefox, URL')
> 
> or
> 
>         call system('xdg-open, URL')
> 
> if you're expecting the user's system to have xdg-utils
> (http://portland.freedesktop.org/) installed. I'm not sure though if you can
> use a program variable within the system call...
> 
Thanks this is helpful.  A major problem" I do not know what browser the user
might be using.

Shirrell
> 
> 
> Conor