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- 7/24/95
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- When you run the 'setup.bat' file for Internet Mail capability you add
- more than this to your overall setup. In other words there are several
- new file extensions added and some of your existing extensions'
- associations may be changed. There is an upside to this though. Even
- though you probably don't have MS's Internet Explorer installed you can
- take advantage of some of it's capability. The ability to put shortcuts
- on the desktop to your favorite URL's! In order to do this you need to
- be using Netscape 1.2b?. I just noticed this ability with the latest beta
- which is b3 and it may work with earlier betas. When you hit view
- bookmarks and right click on a bookmark a new choice has been added:
- 'Create Shortcut'. You are given a choice of where to place the bookmark
- and can also edit the name. In other words it doesn't always have to be
- called 'Shortcut to...'. You can get rid of this right from the start!
-
- I have not found a way to double click the shortcut and start Netscape
- with that URL loaded even though I have added an action to this file
- type with the %1 parameter. This only gives you the text of the URL.
- If someone can tell me another parameter that will work with Netscape
- I will add this info to this readme. You can however drag and drop this
- shortcut on the open window of Netscape and it will go to it.
-
- The icon that has been added to your desktop can be safely deleted and I
- went so far as to delete the key associated with that icon from the
- registry on my system although I don't think this is the preferred
- method unless you know your way around the registry quite well. You
- will probably want to check your graphics extensions as well as any
- .htm or .html extensions and change them back the way you want. You may
- use extensions that I don't and I'm sure you will notice the first time
- you double click on the extension that it has been changed.
-
- I'm sure there are other things that can be customized but I haven't
- gotten around to it yet. If you can help out with this it would be
- great.
-
- IF ALL THIS IS TOO MUCH TROUBLE DO NOT INSTALL THIS FILE BECAUSE YOUR
- SYSTEM WILL BE CHANGED! AND DON'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN YOU. :-)
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