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  1. To: timbl@info.cern.ch, wei@xcf.berkeley.edu
  2. Subject: World Wide Web and Viola
  3. Cc: bloemer
  4.  
  5. ...
  6. 1. Is it possible to define pseudo hyperlinks which start a subprocess?
  7. That would be really phantastic because it allows for nice tutorials with
  8. trial buttons. On xcf.berkely.edu I saw:
  9.  
  10.  
  11. About XMap ... 
  12.  
  13. <P>
  14. Click here for a demo.
  15. <S>/*script*/
  16.     if (accessible("/usr/users/ftp") != "") {
  17.         print("doing /usr/users/ftp/ftp_public/misc/ht/projects/xmap/ultrix.ws.2.1 /usr/users/ftp/ftp_public/misc/ht/projects/xmap/sf_oak & \n");
  18. /*        system("/usr/users/ftp/ftp_public/misc/ht/projects/xmap/ultrix.ws.2.1 /usr/users/ftp/ftp_public/misc/ht/projects/xmap/sf_oak & ");*/
  19.     } else if (accessible("/map" != "")) {
  20.         /* in case this is running in xcfdemo */
  21.         print("doing /xmap/ultrix.ws.2.1 /xmap/sf_oak & \n");
  22. /*        system("/xmap/ultrix.ws.2.1 /xmap/sf_oak & ");*/
  23.     } else {
  24.         /* can't guess where xmap executables might be */
  25.         bell(); /* later, use dialogbox */
  26.     }
  27. </S>
  28.  
  29. Unfortunately it doesn't work, in Viola no button was shown.
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