ULRs to helper-applications in UNIX or PC?

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Macintosh newsreader NewsWatcher has the capability to pass properly
formatted URLs to helper-applications. This is _very_ nice because I can
browse the message and click interesting URLs and they open automatically
the right helper-apps and get me to the right directories or ftp the right
file to my desktop. My faq has URLs formatted as (angle brackets <...>
make it possible to embedd URLs in other text):

<http://biocomp.arc.nasa.gov/3dreconstruction>
<ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/jpeg-faq>
<gopher://gopher.austin.unimelb.edu.au/11/images>

The next version accepts also long URLs formatted on more than one lines
such as:

<ftp://rtfm.mit.edu
/pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/medical-image-faq/volume-visualization>

I must format multi-part-files as:

<ftp://rtfm.mit.edu
/pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/compression-faq/> [part1-3]

so that the user gets to the right directory and can download different
parts manually.

...So I'd like to add a mention of this capability to my faq and the
question is:

Are there similar applications for UNIX or PC?

TIA,

-Matti Haveri <mhaveri@cc.oulu.fi>

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