IP-TEC - Infopeople Technical Service Archive: Re: Netscape 2.0 and Windows 95

Re: Netscape 2.0 and Windows 95

Norman de Groot (ndegroot@mcn.org)
Sun, 31 Mar 1996 16:48:57 -0800

At 04:48 AM 3/28/96 -0800, you wrote:
>Dean, there are two ways to prevent autodialing. The first is to deselect
>it in the "Internet Properties" window. The other is to tell Netscape to
>start up with a blank page in the general preferences dialog.
>
>
>>Additional data: Netscape calls the Microsoft Dial-Up Networking
>>application automatically. Rather than select Connect, I Cancel the
>>dial-up session because I want to do some local stuff with
>>Netscape--another issue, importing bookmarks (man, v. 1.1 is so much
>>better!). I can't believe that not initiating a dial-up session
>>would so confuse Netscape...on second thought, of course I can
>>believe it...but it has not happened in the past. So, this may be a
>>more fundamental Windows issue.
>
>
>
Another possibility is to tell Netscape to load the local bookmark.htm file.
You can create and edit that file to show categorized lists of popular
addresses. These bookmarks give patrons a variety of starting points for
Internet searching. A particular advantage of this approach is that the net
is not cluttered with repetitious connections to home pages away from your
library.

Norm de Groot
Fort Bragg Library Community Partner

Norman de Groot
Mendocino, CA USA
ndegroot@mcn.org
TEL (707) 964 6516