My Common Lisp program writes out an HTML file. I then want to launch this file in the user's default browser.
Is there a way of doing this in Common Lisp? Moreover, is there an OS-independent way of doing this?
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No. That would be a pretty useful thing to do, so if you write code to do it portably, share!
Xach
2010-10-04 00:25:08
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There is no standard way to do it, but there is a reasonably portable library that can execute shell commands.
Vijay Mathew
2010-10-04 05:55:58
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This depends on the Common Lisp implementation and possibly the platform it runs on (Windows, Mac, Linux, ...).
LispWorks provides the function SYS:OPEN-URL. See http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw60/LW/html/lw-1369.htm#pgfId-1219832
(sys:open-url "http://www.foo.com/")
One certainly can also use a file URL.
Rainer Joswig
2010-10-04 08:36:40