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7/24/95
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. :-)