RE: Novell won't let me look in the Help files - changing default browser

Many thanks for this

How I got it to work.............
I added the HTML_BROWSER= line
Pointing to "netscape.exe" (other didn't work) 
Then added the netscape executable directory entry to the Windows NT PATH
statement. 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: jlittlej@ca.ibm.com [SMTP:jlittlej@ca.ibm.com]
> Sent: 26 May 2000 15:46
> To:   CODE400-L@midrange.com; Bennett, Stephen
> Subject:      RE: Novell won't let me look in the Help files - changing
> default browser
> 
> 
> 
> Hello Stephen, Claus is away at this time so your inquiry has been
> forwarded to me.
> You may wish to try the following for changing the default browser...
> 
> 
> Suggestions for specifying which browser help is launched in:
> 
> The directory
> X:\adtswin\help\
> has a file help.cfg
> 
> Depending on the build being used,  there may or may not be a line that
> begins
> HTML_BROWSER=
> and this line may or may not be commented out with a number sign #.
> If there is not a line like this add
> HTML_BROWSER="X:\Program Files\Netscape\Communicator\Program\netscape.exe"
> where X is the drive Netscape is installed on and the rest is the path to
> the netscape exe
> (which may be different than in the example).
> If there is already an HTML_BROWSER= line, make sure it is uncommented and
> pointing
> to the correct browser exe
> 
> Try launching help from within your application, if this fails, try
> rebooting your system as
> an existing process may be using the contents of the original help.cfg
> from
> memory.
> If, after rebooting, help still fails to launch correctly, in
> X:\adtswin\help\help.cfg
> change the HTML_BROWSER= line to
> HTML_BROWSER="netscape.exe"
> as there may have been spaces in the path that weren't interpreted
> correctly.
> In this case, you may need to change your system's PATH statement so that
> it includes a entry
> for Netscape's executable directory. A reboot may be required depending on
> which version of
> Windows is being used.
> 
> You may wish to use Netscape's profile feature and have one profile that
> uses the proxy and
> one that doesn't. If profiles are set up and Netscape is set as the help
> system's browser, then
> when help is initially launched, a dialog will prompt for which profile is
> to be used. This way, Netscape
> wouldn't be committed strictly to non-proxy access.
> 
> 
> 
> >
> >Hi Claus,
> >
> >Can I tell CODE400 to us a particular browser for accessing it's help
> files?
> >
> >Because..........
> >If I cannot get the proxy script changed
> >
> >Then lets say......
> >I want to use MS IE as my internet browser
> >And Netscape for CODE400 help, i.e. I have Netscape running with the
> proxy
> >script disabled........
> >
> >So......
> >Is it possible to direct CODE400 help to use a specific brower?
> >
> >The other alternative is for me to bookmark all the CODE400 entries in
> >Netscape...........
> >
> >Best regards,
> >Stephen
> >
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:   weiss@ca.ibm.com [SMTP:weiss@ca.ibm.com]
> > Sent:   18 May 2000 17:41
> > To:     CODE400-L@midrange.com
> > Subject:     Re: Novell won't let me look in the Help files
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi Booth, this is the answer I got from our Help gurus, hope it solves
> the
> > problem
> >
> >
> > Hi Claus, usually problems like this are due to the user's browser proxy
> > settings.
> > In Netscape:
> > Edit->preferences->advanced->proxies->Manual Proxy Configuration
> > an entry such as:
> > localhost:49213,127.0.0.1,localhost
> > can be put in the exceptions field. Each entry is separated by a comma
> > here.
> > This way, the browser doesn't look to the network's server to resolve a
> > local request.
> > If their browser's setup is to use a proxy script existing on the
> network
> > such as under
> > "Automatic proxy configuration" in Netscape, then what probably needs to
> > be
> > done
> > is that the sysadmin would need to add an entry for localhost requests
> in
> > their script.
> >
> > Internet Explorer has similar proxy options under:
> > Internet Options->Connections->LAN Settings
> >
> > Claus Weiss Visual AD tools, email: weiss@ca.ibm.com
> > Dept 522 IBM Canada Lab tie778-3987 Phone(416)448-3987 FAX(416)448-4414
> > Greetings from Toronto
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