On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 14:25:12, Michael Kaply <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> opined:
> Could you post what the actual entry in the bookmarks file is? I did!! See the one I give in my original posting below. What I described below is what happened. This was the way the installation program imported the URL from the NS4.6.1 directory, and it made Mozilla cough as I said. I do not make these things up. > I added a bookmark like: > > file:///d:\clan\index.html and it worked. > > I'm wondering if the URL got corrupted on the import of bookmarks. > > There definitely is a bug here though - if you type: > > file:///d:\clan\index.html > > In the URL bar, the slashes and drive letter get converted incorrectly. > > Mike Kaply > IBM > > Stan Goodman wrote: > > > I am using Warpzilla 0.9.6 > > > > I have a bookmark set for a local file, a mirror of a file on my > > website (this bookmark was in the Bookmarks file that the Mozilla > > installation copied from the prior Netscape 4.6.1 directory). The > > location is shown in the Bookmarks file as: > > > > file:///d:\clan\index.html > > > > Netscape accepts this designation; when it views this file, it changes > > the backslashes to forward slashes in the location window. Not so > > Mozilla, which puts up an "Alert" message reading: > > > > "The file /d%3A%5Cclan%5Cindex.html cannot be found. Please check the > > location and try again." > > > > The location window reads: file:///d%3A%5Cclan%5Cindex.html > > > > The first conclusion was that Mozilla is incapable of viewing a local > > HTML file, a bug. But I found that, if I edit the bookmark manually to > > change the backslashes to forward slashes, Mozilla no longer chokes, > > and views the local file properly. > > > > The bug, then, is that the standard for slashes is different in > > Mozilla and Netscape, and that the Mozilla installation program > > doesn't know enough to accomodate the difference when it copies > > Netscape Bookmark files. > > > > -- > > Stan Goodman > > Qiryat Tiv'on > > Israel > > > > To send me email, please note that email addressed to "SPAM-FOILER" > > will not reach me, and will not be read. Please replace "SPAM-FOILER" > > with "stan". > -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel To send me email, please note that email addressed to "SPAM-FOILER" will not reach me, and will not be read. Please replace "SPAM-FOILER" with "stan".
