Re: Netscape Communicator 4.5 can read local files

From: Norbert Luckhardt (nlat_private)
Date: Thu Nov 26 1998 - 08:43:31 PST

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Hi there,

At 19:36 23.11.98 , you wrote:
>There is a bug in Netscape Communicator 4.5 for Windows 95
and 4.05 for
>WinNT 4.0 (probably others)

we just tried it on the Mac - surely the script has to be
adapted since the mac doesn't use drive letters - so if You
don't know the names of the drive you cannot give an
absolute path - but it could work with relative paths:

sl=window.open("wysiwyg://1/file:////");

those 4 slashes show the directory in which netscape is
installed (every extra slash goes one dir up)

it is at least possible to get files from that directory
with:

java.io.File(\"test.txt\")

alas I'm not so firm with JavaScript and thus I did not get
a working code with the quoting for higher dir levels -
earned only JavaScript Errors

but I think this is only my personal problem, isn't it?! ;-)

have fun, Shalom dann,
        NOrbert

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