> Could you give more details or point me to a reference on this? I don't > know anything about "-remote". Thanks. http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/x-remote.html The class Netscape in the standard Python module webbrowser.py uses this. Also the (X?)Emacs function browse-url-netscape. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)