From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 2 8:44:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cybcon.com (mail.cybcon.com [216.190.188.5]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3B2C408E for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 08:44:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.cybcon.com (william@usr1-31.cybcon.com [205.147.75.32]) by mail.cybcon.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA03466; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 08:43:52 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 08:39:00 -0800 (PST) From: William Woods To: "Havener, Kevin" Subject: RE: Netscape issues.... Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thats ok, I got tired of it and since I use KDE, I created a shortcut to the file on my desktop and it opens the KDE browser to that file..... Thanks On 02-Feb-00 Havener, Kevin wrote: > Then it must be some demand dialing/Netscape interaction wierdness. I don't > use demand dialing and yet my netscape default page is set to a file on my > local machine using just syntax I've described. > > Sorry, I don't know anything about demand dialing. > > Good luck > Kevin > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: William Woods [SMTP:freebsd@cybcon.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 11:12 AM >> To: Havener, Kevin >> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Brett Taylor >> Subject: RE: Netscape issues.... >> >> Still trying to dial, >> >> I do have ppp -alias -nat myisp >> >> going, but I need that >> >> On 02-Feb-00 Havener, Kevin wrote: >> > If that doesn't work, use netscape >> > file:///usr/local/books/unixbookshelf/index.htm >> > IIRC, the number of leading slashes is important. >> > >> > Kevin >> > >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: Brett Taylor [SMTP:brett@peloton.runet.edu] >> >> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 10:29 AM >> >> To: William Woods >> >> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >> >> Subject: Re: Netscape issues.... >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, William Woods wrote: >> >> >> >> > I have a couple manuals on my system in .htm format that I use often, >> >> > but every time I execute a small script I have written: >> >> > >> >> > netscape /usr/local/books/unixbookshelf/index.htm >> >> >> >> I'm not 100% certain this will work, but I think it will: >> >> >> >> netscape file:/usr/local/books/unixbookshelf/index.htm >> >> >> >> I don't think it will dial if you use the file:. >> >> >> >> Brett >> >> ***************************************************** >> >> Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * >> >> Dept of Chem and Physics * >> >> Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * >> >> Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * >> >> Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * >> >> ***************************************************** >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> >> ---------------------------------- >> E-Mail: William Woods >> Date: 02-Feb-00 >> Time: 08:11:46 >> >> This message was sent by XFMail >> ---------------------------------- >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: William Woods Date: 02-Feb-00 Time: 08:38:15 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message