In article <1995Nov7.155728@miavx1>, [log in to unmask] (R.E. Willia
ms, Jr.) writes:
> In article <1995Nov7.083549@miavx1>, [log in to unmask] (Kent Cove
rt) writes:
>> In article <1995Nov6.095120@miavx1>, [log in to unmask] (R.E. Wil
liams, Jr.) writes:
>> The problem comes in that the system does not dereference symbols
>> recursively - it only does it once!  Therefore, when you issue the
>> 'command' WEB, the system dereferences this to:
>>     www http://miavx1.acs.muohio.edu/~willar2/personal.html
>> The system then tries to execute this, but it doesn't go back through the
>> dereferencing process on the symbol www and therefore fails because there
>> is no command called WWW.
>
> That would explain it, and also explains why using a single quote solves my
> problem....
 
I seem to have a developed a habit of following up on my on posts....
 
Anyway, I made that small change, and now I'm getting a different error.
When I try it, I get the following error message:
 
lynx: Can't access start file
file://localhost/HTTP://MIAVX1.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU/~WILLIAR2/PERSONAL.HTML
 
Yet, I can turn around and do it manually with no problem... what gives? Am
I just not meant to be able to do this? I'm beginning to miss the good ol'
double-click-on-the-URL-I-dragged-to-the-desktop-from-Netscape more and
more....
 
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