I AM FULLY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE THIS SCRIPT DOES TO YOUR COMPUTER.
SEND YOUR CLAIMS TO <SMILE@NORDNETT.NO>, AND I WILL PROMPTLY PAY YOU TWICE THE AMOUNT YOU REQUIRE.
NOTE: THIS DOES NOT APPLY IF YOU HAVE ACTUALLY RUN THE SCRIPT. ARE YOU STUPID OR WHAT?
BY THE WAY ╤ KILL THE SUB-ZERO-IQ AMERICAN LAWYERS WHO THINK DISCLAIMERS ARE A GOOD IDEA.
What does it do?
It lets Netscape use Anarchie or Fetch as the default FTP client. In other words: When you click on URLs that begin with ftp://, Netscape sends the request to Anarchie or Fetch, instead of trying to do the job itself. Anarchie and Fetch tend to be a *lot* more stable than Netscape in handling such jobs.
How does it work?
It sends an AppleScript command to Netscape, which changes its internal configuration. This patch is squeaky clean ╤ it╒s nothing like a ResEdit hack.
What do I need?
Ñ AppleScript installed at the time you run the script. Note: You can remove AppleScript afterwards if you don╒t use it.
Ñ Netscape (hello?)
Ñ Anarchie or Fetch
How do I undo this change?
Don╒t know. My copy of Netscape 2.0b2 didn╒t like my AppleScript attempts to "unregister". If anybody knows why, feel free to educate me. Any comments from the guys at Netscape are especially welcome. (Trashing the prefs will probably work. If it doesn╒t, re-install Netscape.)
Version history
Ñ1.0.1
Removed option to undo the change. It simply never worked.
Added option to use Fetch.
Ñ1.0
Initial release to four (!) of my friends: Yngve R┐dli, Lars Grov, Kai R┐er and Sverri Dahl.
Actually, the last guy is my dad ╤ so maybe he doesn╒t count ;-)
How much does this cost me?
Hello? I didn╒t invent this feature in Netscape. I simply wrote a five-minute script which acts as a front end. Send me some nice email if you like. Or some bug fixes for PageMill 1.0, which really disappointed me. (If you consider "<ADDRESS><H1></ADDRESS></H1>" good HTML, please disregard the last sentence.)
Snorre Milde
smile@nordnett.no
http://www.nordnett.no/~smile/
(Norwegian content at the moment, but I╒ll put up english info as well in two weeks.)
For people who like more lawyer bullshit like my undisclaimer, please visit The Cult Of Macintosh at <http://www.utu.fi/~jsirkia/mac/>. Great Mac site, but it turns out that the sucker is becoming a lawyer. Therefore, he tries to copyright all the URLs at his site. Now that╒s what I call smart thinking. One can only wonder how he╒s going to enforce it...
