When starting NetscDDE, you must at least pass the URL to open on the command line. This URL can be a local HTML file also.
NetscDDE will then first look for whether the browser is already running.
If so, the running browser instance will be told to open the specified URL
in an existing window.
If not, NetscDDE will prompt you for whether the browser should be started.
Unless this is overridden with command line arguments, NetscDDE will then attempt
to start
the default browser that is specified in your URL objects; if none is there, it
will attempt to start
NETSCAPE.EXE
from your
PATH
.
This will work with all known versions of Netscape on &os2;. To make
this work with Mozilla too, you must use the -S
parameter
because Mozilla uses a different DDE server name.
On &os2;, Mozilla has been supporting DDE since version 0.9.3.
Netscape DDE understands the following command line parameters:
-q
-n
-x
or -X
-x
nor -X
are specified, NetscDDE will
prompt you for whether a new instance should be started.
If -x
is specified, NetscDDE will not prompt and never start
a new copy.
If -X
is specified, NetscDDE will not prompt and always start
a new copy.
-p fullpath
NETSCAPE.EXE
on your
PATH
is used.
If you want to use Mozilla, you could specify the full
path
of MOZILLA.EXE
,
for example. You could also start a batch file.
-P params
params
.
-s directory
LIBPATH
and
the browser does not find its
DLLs
otherwise.
If this is not specified, NetscDDE will look for your default browser settings
from a WPUrl object. If none are there, no startup directory is used.
-S server
NETSCAPE
, to which all &os2; Netscape versions will react.
However, since Mozilla uses the Mozilla
server name, you must specify
this option explicitly to use Mozilla with NetscDDE.
-h
-p
option with a batch file.
-m
-p
option with a batch file.