"Misha Koshelev" mk144210@bcm.edu wrote:
Btw the reason for the /dde parameter is simply so that if the user runs winebrowser from the command line he/she does not have to wait for the 5 second timeout before they get a usage message.
On windows there is no such parameter passed to iexplore (although -nohome is passed so it doesn't open a homepage) as iexplore will actually open a window that will then sit and wait for the DDE server request. Since winebrowser does no such thing, and will exit once it starts the appropriate unix browser, we have to have a timeout, but if we pass a special command line parameter we will know only to wait for a dde request if it is passed, so a commandline user can see his usage message right away.
If you need a special command line parameter it should be named differently then. The behaviour should conform to what Windows does in that case. Just think of it as the winebrowser has been executed under Windows with its default registry setup, but winebrowser being a replacement for iexplore.