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posted by ron Homepage E-mail, Australia, 30.10.2013, 01:49

> What i'm trying to do is use Links as an external viewer from my TUI shell,
> and that only supplies standard DOS syntax (for example:
> d:\path\filename.ext) when it passes command-line parameters to an
> external.

That should still work.


> Unfortunately (as above), my shell program uses only "\" characters when
> supplying path info, so i guess i'm SOL...

That should not be a problem. Links accepts \ or / , at least on my system.
And it accepts relative links between .htm files: I just tested it on my chemical
data package - once I got to the leading index it was all open to Links.


> unless i can find the "/" chars
> internally in LINK.EXE's path strings and hack them into "\" chars.

That should not be necessary.

Unless there is something about your "TUI" shell I don't know about. :(

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