Alexander Sperduti wrote:
>Help!
>
>I have a ton of URL links in a folder, but double-clicking them doesn't work
>with Netscape!
>I'm using Win95 first release, Netscape 6.01, and NO IE.
>
>Normally, with IE, double-clicking a *.URL file would launch the browser and
>load the web page. But with Netscape, I just get the "associate file with
>application" window. And associating Netscape with *.URL doesn't work
>either.
>
>It's like Netscape doesn't know what a URL file is. There MUST be a way...
>
>TIA
>
URL files are created and parsed by InternetShortcut COM objects only
available on Win95 after IE is installed. If you don't install IE there
is nothing to parse the files so they won't load. Associating the files
with NS won't do you much good because it also relies on
InternetShortcut objects being there.
Short of installing IE, the only other viable alternative is to run them
through a bookmark/shortcut translator that doesn't use the
InternetShortcut object, or write yourself a perl script to parse
through the files yourself.
Adam
