1 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .TH WEB 1
 2 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .SH NAME
 3 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull web, wmail \- handle web page, mail message for plumber
 4 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .SH SYNOPSIS
 5 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .B web
 6 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .I url
 7 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull \&...
 8 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .br
 9 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .B wmail
10 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .I address
11 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .SH DESCRIPTION
12 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .I Web
13 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull opens each of the named
14 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .I urls
15 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull in a new web browser window.
16 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull Any of the
17 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .I urls
18 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull may be relative paths to files in the file system;
19 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull they will be translated into
20 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .B file://
21 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull URLs before being passed to the web browser.
22 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .PP
23 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .I Web
24 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull uses the
25 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull web browser's
26 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .B -remote
27 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull option command-line option,
28 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull which requires an instance of the web browser
29 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull to be already running.
30 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull The choice of browser is determined by the
31 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .B $BROWSER
32 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull environment variable, which should be the name of
33 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull the executable for your choice of web browser.
34 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull Since the various browsers all use different syntaxes
35 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull in their
36 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .B -remote
37 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull options, the executable name is inspected to determine
38 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull the type of browser.
39 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull The supported browsers are Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firebird, and Mozilla.
40 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull When possible,
41 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .I web
42 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull opens each URL in a new tab rather than a new window.
43 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .PP
44 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .I Wmail
45 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull starts the composition of a new mail message to
46 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .IR address .
47 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .PP
48 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull The choice of mailer is determined by the 
49 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .B $MAILER
50 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull environment variable.
51 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull The supported mailers are:
52 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .TP browser
53 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull invoke the mailer via a
54 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .B mailto://
55 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull URL passed to
56 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .I web
57 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .PD
58 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .PP
59 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .I Web
60 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull and
61 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .I wmail
62 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull are invoked as start commands in the
63 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .IR plumber (4)'s
64 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull rules for opening web pages and writing mail messages.
65 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .SH FILES
66 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .TP
67 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .B /usr/local/plan9/plumb/basic
68 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull plumbing rules using
69 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .I web
70 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull and
71 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .I wmail
72 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .SH SOURCE
73 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .B /usr/local/plan9/bin
74 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .SH SEE ALSO
75 058b0118 2005-01-03 devnull .IR plumber (4)