gurl (call browser and it an URL)

[Brian Dessent]

zzapper wrote:

> # c:/progra~1/opera75/opera.exe $url
> c:/Program\ Files/internet\ explorer/iexplore $url &
> }

Yuck.  No need to do this, just "cygstart http://www.cygwin.com" or
"cygstart www.cygwin.com".  This will launch the URL in whatever browser
the user has configured to handle http://, rather than hardcoding it. 
This is equivalent to Start -> Run.

Brian

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