I have installed Netscape Navigator for Solaris 2.5.1 on all of our WP51D's
for Help file viewing.  The only issue is that sometimes on FoxView, the
colors get messed up if you run Netscape.  If you close Netscape and restart
FoxView, the colors look OK again.  This is pretty typical of FoxView in
general.  It doesn't like other applications running that want to use the
color palette.  For the most part, it has been very successful and we've
been happy with Netscape.  

We have an Apache web server on one of our AW51E's, and the WP51D's can call
up HTML help documents via buttons on the FoxView screens from the AW51E
that have nice explanations of our advanced control schemes.  Since the
WP51D's don't have second Ethernet ports, we use the token-ring IP address
on the AW51E to serve the documents to the WP51D's.  That's probably not
incredibly smart, but HTML documents are usually not high-bandwidth, and we
haven't had any traffic problems that I know of.

You can find a compiled version of Netscape Navigator for Unix 2.5.1 at 

http://home.netscape.com/download/0222101/10002-en-solaris2.5.1-4.76-base-12
8_qual.html
<http://home.netscape.com/download/0222101/10002-en-solaris2.5.1-4.76-base-1
28_qual.html> 


Tim

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Karppi, Dan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
        Sent:   Friday, March 09, 2001 10:19 AM
        To:     'Foxboro DCS Mail List'
        Subject:        Helpfile Viewer

        Hello List Members,
         
        I want to provide our plant operators with Help/Operating manual
pages that
        are called up by a button on a display.  Standard display manager
text boxes
        are too limited.  I am looking for a way to display text and graphic
files
        from display manager.  Do any of you do this or know how to do this
using
        built in Solaris applications or third party applications.  An HTML
file
        viewer would be ideal.
         
        Thanks,
        Dan
         
        Dan Karppi CCST
        Falconbridge Limited
        Smelter Complex
        Falconbridge, Ontario
        Canada
        P0M 1S0
         
        Phone: (705) 693-2761 ext. 3881
        Fax:     (705) 699-3887
        mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
        <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
         
        

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