Re: Netscape helper application configuration

[Michael Smith <msmith4@gladstone.uoregon.edu>]

Try staroffice with the %f (I think this passes the filename, but I might be way off
in left field.  Try also %s or %u)  Also check out mswordview, this is what it's
designed for.

--Mike


"Stephen A. Witt" wrote:

> I'm trying to figure out how to get Netscape to open up an application to
> view a Word document. I've edited the Applications category within the
> Navigator preferences to start StarOffice when a Word document is
> selected. StarOffice does start up, but it doesn't open the Word document.
> So, I'm thinking that I need to somehow provide the name of the file as a
> parameter to StarOffice when it is executed. This does in fact work if I
> execute StarOffice from the shell. Other than the obvious "don't read any
> Word documents, because the authors must be lower forms of life, ", does
> anyone have a clue as to how I can proceed with this?
>
> Thanks...
>
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