>You wrote:
>  I want to communicate with Netscape and do some actions like opening
>  url from lisp in netscape.
>
>Unfortunately the current DDE interface does not support inter-app
>conversations in anything but strings.  Netscape is one of the few
>applications which exchanges non-strings via DDE.  We recognize that
>it is a popular application, and our interface is slated for
>improvement in a future release.  However, since we don't plan to do
>any work on it for some time, we'd be willing to send you the DDE
>source code (it's actually fairly simple) for you to play around with.
>Let us know if this interests you.


In the Allegro environment on Sparcs we do it simply by the following 
method using the
'-remote' option to Netscape to get it to open URLs for me. It requires
that Netscape be running on the workstation.

(excl:run-shell-command
  (format nil "netscape -remote 'openURL(~a)' &" URL))

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Curt Eggemeyer
Sec.314
M. S. 301-250D
4-6592 or 4-0158
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