[ale] OT: how are Netscape helper apps invoked?

[Joseph A Knapka]

Hi everyone,

Does anyone know how Netscape invokes helper applications
(configured in "Edit->Preferences->Navigator->Applications")?
For example, I associate .wav files with a Tcl script that's
supposed to pipe the file data into /dev/dsp. How does
NS pass the file data? It doesn't do either of the obvious
things (send the data via standard input, or send the
local filename as a command-line argument). I've tried
the Netscape docs and Google, with no luck so far.

Thanks in advance,

-- Joe
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