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Commands Reference, Volume 2
Starts the WebExplorer World Wide
Web browser.
explore [ -iFileName ] [ -tNumber ] [ -q] [[ -url] URL]
The explore command
opens the WebExplorer main window and connects to the Uniform Resource Locator
(URL) for the home document.
-iFileName
| Specifies an alternate initialization file, where FileName is
the full path name of the file to use instead of the default
$HOME/.explore-preferences. This allows you to start
the WebExplorer with an alternate set of user preferences.
|
-tNumber
| Specifies the number of threads to use for loading images, where
Number is the number of image loader threads. Each thread is
represented in the status area of the main window. A maximum of eight
can be specified, and the default is four.
|
-q
| Specifies quiet mode. This suppresses the WebExplorer title window
when you start the application and bypasses the confirmation window when you
exit.
|
-url URL
| Specifies a particular document to load when starting WebExplorer, where
URL is the URL of the document to load. If WebExplorer has a
home document defined, this URL will override it. You do not have to
precede the URL with the -url flag. If you specify the URL
by itself, WebExplorer will accept it.
|
This command returns the
following exit values:
0
| Successful completion.
|
>0
| An error occurred.
|
Access Control: Any User
Auditing Events: N/A
To start the browser without the
title window appearing and go directly to the Dilbert Zone URL, enter:
explore -q http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/
or
explore -q -url http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/
/usr/lpp/explorer/bin/explore
| Contains the explore command.
|
$HOME/.explore-preferences
| Contains the initialization file that specifies user preferences for
settings such as the number of colors used.
|
$HOME/.mailcap
| Contains the configuration file that maps mimetype to external
viewers.
|
$HOME/.mimetypes
| Contains the user-defined configuration file that maps mimetype to
external viewers. It is set through the Configure Viewers
dialog. this file overrides the .mailcap
settings.
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