[pdftex] Launching programs...

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 01:46:15PM +0200, Steffen Neumann wrote:

> Thierry Bouche <thierry.bouche at ujf-grenoble.fr> writes:
> [...]
> > Ah, great! in fact this is what hyperref will put in the PDF if you
> > say \href{run:mplayer movie.mpg}, which doesn't work under windows

\href{run:mplayer#movie.mpg}

> Over here one of us created a hack that involves the TeX code below.
> (BTW. is \href{} the recommended way to run programs ? 

The only way, hyperrref offers.

>  Does it need JavaScript ?)

No.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>
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