Re: RE: Novell won't let me look in the Help files - changing defaultbrowser

I looked in the Help.cfg file and saw nothing about the browser.  Adding 
the browser line didn't do anything useful either.  But what is this line? 


  HTML_HOSTNAME=localhost:49213

and why is it the choice? is this the same as 127.0.0.1 port 49213?

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Booth Martin
booth@martinvt.com
http://www.MartinVT.com
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"Booth Martin" <BMartin@resolut.com>
05/30/2000 08:40 AM

 
        To:     boothm@earth.Goddard.edu
        cc: 
        Subject:        Re: RE: Novell won't let me look in the Help files - 
changing default 
browser



jlittlej@ca.ibm.com 
Sent by: owner-code400-l@midrange.com 
05/26/2000 10:46 AM
Please respond to CODE400-L

 
        To:     CODE400-L@midrange.com, Stephen.Bennett@fid-intl.com 
        cc: 
        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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> VARPG newsgroup news://news.software.ibm.com/ibm.software.varpg,
>
>

James Littlejohn
IBM Canada Limited, Toronto Lab
Toronto Information Development
3S/870/1150/TOR
416-448-4343 tl 8-778-4343
jlittlej@ca.ibm.com 
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