Saving only to A Drive

[Ken Becker]

On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Angela Kirchner wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Does anyone know of a way to make an Internet computer save only to
> the "A" drive?  I am using WinSelect 3.3+ if that helps.

On Win95 machines, I use the control panel tweakUI (one of those free
Microsoft accessories you can download) to hide every drive except a: in
My Computer, which also hides them in Netscape's "drives" pull down menu
when saving.

On Win 3.11, I can't limit to a:, but I do change Netscape.ini (and write
protect it!) so that the default save dir=c:\temp, so that if they do
forget to select a:\, at least the downloaded file doesn't end up in the
netscape directory.  Plus you can put a line in autoexec.bat to clear out
the temp directory each reboot.  You could set netscape.ini's default save
dir=a:\, but it only works if the floppy is inserted, otherwise it
defaults to the Netscape directory.

Neither of these prevents someone from saving to the hard drive by typing
c:\blah.exe as the filename, but it does help steer them to the a: drive.

Hope that helps 
Ken Becker
Menlo Park PL