Opening a browser from PowehouseNT

[Darren Reely]

Has anyone tried "start http://www.cognos.com" to use the users default 
browswer rather than forcing them to use that faulty and highly attacked 
IE? It works from the command line.


Neil Harvey wrote:
> I've had success with the "start" command in NT - it seems to know where
> to find these pesky migrating applications.
> 
> So "start iexplore http://www.cognos.co.za" issued as a Run COMMAND (you
> can test these from a DOS Box) seems to work.
> 
> So does "start notepad" "start wordpad" "start dir.cmd" (where dir.cmd
> is an NT .cmd file with some instructions).
> 
> And so on.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Neil