Well MeK,
although I am not quite sure (your explanation is a bit fuzzy) I get the
idea that when you open your KDE file manager and go to the directory where
you have dumped the faq, instead of displaying the directory contents (your
important stuff), it displays the HTML page of the faq. If this is the case,
the cause is simple: when saving the faq to disk, you stored it under the
name of 'index.html' or 'default.html' or something similar. Normally on
webservers, when someone asks for a specific URL which doesnt contain an
.html filename (e.g. http://huizen.dds.nl/~aleksei/ - which just happens to
be my homepage :-) the webserver looks for a specific index file which is
displayed instead of the directory contents. This saves the user from having
to type (same example) http://huizen.dds.nl/~aleksei/index.html . Some
webbrowsers (and the KDE filemanager is also a webbrowser) also use this
scheme when browsing local directories. The solution would be to either 1)
rename the file to something different (e.g. 'mv /home/mek/index.html
/home/mek/modem-FAQ.html' in a terminal window) or 2) disable the K file
manager to display the HTML file (should be in the menubar somewhere).
Vriendelijke Groeten / Kind Regards,
Alexander van Luijpen
Philips Semiconductors Nederland
Test and Product Engineering
MOS4YOU - C075 OTP / Consumer Systems Nijmegen - BL Video
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(+31)-24-378 9475
Let's make things better
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mek@antenna [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, June 12, 1999 9:56 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: /home/mek/
>
> dear newbies (and old bees),
> something very strange happened to me. i downloaded a webpage about
> "faq about modems" so as usually mr.netscape asked me the question where i
> want to have it saved, the usual place for me is /home/mek/ (mek is my
> name), because there lays all my important stuff. so later off line i
> wanted to read it in kde, opened the home-directory as window, clicked the
> icon "mek" where after i should find the icons of all my programs and
> important stuff, but there i found the tekst "faq about modems" instead of
> any icons. i tried to delete the tekst, to get back the icons, but it
> didn't work, even not to remove to the trash bin.
> fortunately i saw by using the disk-navigator that all the files does
> still exist. does anyone know how i get rid of this.
>
> oh yes, the downloaded file was part of uunet-howtos, so i searched on
> everithing on my harddisk called "uunet" and deleted it, but still...
>
> i use suse 6.1
>
> mek
