Saving only to A Drive

[Denis F. Kirk]

Ken,
You can use POLICY part of WINSelect to control
Netscape saving (and Opening & Printing) to Drive A:  
The "Save" Dialog box will only shows drive A: or whatever drive 
you select as "Authorized". You can also filter the File name
and Extension.
Denis

At 04:08 PM 7/21/98 -0700, Ken Becker wrote:
>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
> 
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