[WEB4LIB] Can IE 6.0 and Mozilla 1.0 access local files?

[Jodi Thomson]

Have you modified the MIME types in IE6 and Mozilla so that the browsers
know what to do with the files?
For Mozilla choose Edit->Preferences->Navigator->Helper Applications
For IE 6 you will need to modify File Types using Windows Explorer
Tools->Options

Mozilla 1.2a has also been released which is rather more stable than 1.0

Regards
Jodi
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Jodi W. Anderson, Mr (A+, MCP) - Computer Systems Consultant
Waikato University Library - Computing Operations Group
Ph: +64 7 838 4323
email: jodi at waikato.ac.nz

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: plim at ccsf.edu [mailto:plim at ccsf.edu] 
> Sent: Friday, 11 October 2002 16:14
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Can IE 6.0 and Mozilla 1.0 access local files?
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> We have some links on our Homepage that are used to access 
> CDROM programs on our server, they work fine with I.E. 5.5 
> and Netscape 4.73. But the links don't work when we use I.E. 
> 6 and Mozilla 1.0 browsers. The format of the link is:
> 
file://C:\Program Files\lceasy\LCEASY.exe
or
file:///c:\batch/nyt.pif

I wonder if anyone knows anyway to modify the links to work with these
new browsers.

Thank you in advance.

Kim Lim
Skyline College