[GRASS-dev] [grass-code patches][280] Fix Help button in gis.m raster/vector display conf locks up gis.m

[Michael Barton]

Right. But why is a message generated to tell me that I am starting a  
browser for module d.rast... This is what I intended to do, and a  
message to this effect sent to stderr seems redundant. I can see  
getting a message "Unable to open browser <open> for module  
d.rast...", but I don't see why one is necessary to tell the user  
that the program is indeed doing what it is supposed to do. (grumble  
grumble grumble). This is a message that I don't remember seeing before.

Michael



On Feb 11, 2007, at 9:32 PM, Hamish wrote:

> Michael Barton wrote:
>>
>> Starting browser <open> for module d.rast...
>
> lib/init/init.sh sets this:
>
>   elif [ "$HOSTTYPE" = "macintosh" -o "$HOSTTYPE" = "powermac" -o  
> "$HOSTTYPE" = "powerpc" ] ; then
>       GRASS_HTML_BROWSER=open
>
>
> As for MacOSX you can do "open URL" from the command line to launch  
> safari.
>
> Apparently that forks itself into a background process, but that  
> behavior
> is specific to OSX's "open" command. If GRASS_HTML_BROWSER is set to a
> regular program name, it probably won't background itself.
>
>
> Hamish

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