"Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." wrote:
>
>
> Okay please explain for admonition by the Champs "Not to place
> Communicator and netscape 6 on the same partion on your hard Drive".
>
> I realize that Mozilla and netscape 6 can actaully use one anothers
> preferences because the path to preferences is Name (name of Hard Drive)
> > Documents > Mozilla > User Profile.
>
> But i am refering to Communicator and netscape 6.
>
> Communicator's preferences are located in System File > preferences File
> > Netscape User Folder, Profile Folder. There is no way they can share Preferences.
>
> However, The Mac uses both Internet Config and and File Exchange. Both
> depend upon Type and creator codes.
>
> If for example say I want to update Interarchy from with Interarchy and
> and both Netscape 6 and Communicator are present on same Partition
> Internet Config /Internet Contol panel will call up netscape 6 instead
> Communicator as i have set. Throwing away Internet Control panel's
> preferences make no difference becaus it does a poll of all the
> applications it finds Communicator with Type APPL Creator MOSS, and it
> finds Netscape 6 with Type APPL, and Creator MOSS.
>
> So guess what happens. Both try to open. But Netscape 6 has code to kill
> off any other application with the same Type and Creator. SO even though
> I plainly have set Communicator as the browser to use to go to website
> to update application (I used Interarchy in this example but it could be
> anything) netscape 6 comes up. I can repeat this for a thousand years
> if necessary. It will come up the same.
>
> So please explain why I get this problem is its not a conflict between
> the type and creator code.
>
> And Finally I was not trying to "Drag" the Champions program in to this,
> other than to state that memebers of the Champs program on the
> Communicator Mac groups have suggested "Not to place N6 and Communicator
> either on same partition if your drive is partitioned or on the same
> hard drive because of this problem. No other reason was intended. The
> Champs program has helped out me a lot with Communicator. And I suppose
> will continue to do as long as Communicator is Viable.
Never mind. I have had my ration of talking to fence posts this week.
Chuck
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