In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I still need Communicator 4.7.8 for Banking.
That's the bank's fault.
> This is caused on the Mac by Netscape 6 using the identical(carbon copy
> of) type and creator codes on the Mac, for both N6 and Communicator.
> (You'd think the Mac oders would have caught this by now, duhhhh.)
They are aware of it. It is by design. Netscape 6 is supposed to replace
Nav 4.x. IIRC, the rationale was that the folks who need to keep Nav 4.x
around are Web designers who are supposed to be savvy enough to be able
to deal with the situation.
(BTW, Mac IE 4.01 and Mac IE 5.0 share a creator code, too.)
> So in order to use netscape 6 and Communicator on same system requires
> that I either reformat my hard drive with two partitions. (Get real when
> I have 4 gb bytes of applications/files or more. How am i supposed to do
> that unless I buy an additiona Hard Drive.) ORrrrrrrrr ...... I must
> buy an additional Hard Drive.
Or you could
* Hide Nav 4.x on a disk image. If you need to test a site with Nav 4.x,
the disk image can be mounted in a few seconds.
* Open files in a given browser by dragging the files onto the app icon
or into the browser window.
> PC people don't have this problem because type and creator codes don't
> exist. They exist on Mac so that Mac people don't have to futz around
> looking for an appropriate program to open a file. You double click on
> the document and the Application opens automatically, or you get a list
> of appropriate Applications to use.
The type/creator code system worked fine before Mac user started to
download files from the Internet. Nowadays TypesChange is needed too
often. (http://www.helsinki.fi/~pkamppur/typeschange.html)
--
Henri Sivonen
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http://www.clinet.fi/~henris/
