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Re: starship-design: Re:No Text? No Problem!
At 6:28 PM 9/10/96, Kevin \"Tex\" Houston wrote:
>Kelly Starks x7066 MS 10-39 wrote:
>>
>> I stumbled into something. I have downloaded a copy of NetScape Navagator
>> 3.0 and was using it to access the newsletter area. It doesn't recognize
>> or open text. It eiather asks for the special application this would
>> require, or suggests you link to them to pick up some applet. I tried the
>> same thing on the old Newsletters on the SunSite server, and it mearly
>> offers to download the .txt newsletter files to your harddrive. Charming
>> upgrade.
>
>Kelly, Kelly, Kelly.
>
>You have to specify which program you want to use to display .txt files
>under OPTIONS/GENERAL PREFERENCES/HELPERS go down to the bottom of the
>list
>and select the text entry then instead of (unknown prompt user), put
>either (view in browser), or (launch application if you have a favorite
>text editor) You can do this with any type of file, just don't do it
>with .exe, or .bat (always prompt for these, so you don't execute
>someone's
>idea of a prank) Once you make this change here, it will always be in
>force until revoked.
>
>
>--
>Kevin "Tex" Houston http://umn.edu/~hous0042/index.html
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Your right. I forgot to set the default for text or .txt files. One askes
for an applet, the other defaulted to download to disk.
Kelly
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Sr. Systems Engineer Mail Stop: 10-39
Hughes defense Communications
1010 Production Road, Fort Wayne, IN 46808-4106
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