Re: Getting rid of explorers
Re: Getting rid of explorers
- Subject: Re: Getting rid of explorers
- From: David Remahl <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 18:49:35 +0100
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When I clicked on "Technotes" in the Apple Documentation, the Internet
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Explorer came up, which I did not like.
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So I changed the application responsibel for 'html', 'HTML', etc. to
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OmniWeb.
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No good.
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I renamed the unwanted Explorer.
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No good.
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I copied it to some other location, deleted the thing in /Applications
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No good.
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I copied it to my Next-computer, deleting it on my Mac.
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No good.
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I disconnected my Next-computer from the Mac.
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Finally no more explorer! But instead of using the already running
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OmniWeb a new copy of it was started, which is also a bit silly.
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I guess that this very persistent behaviour of the explorer has
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something to do with aliases.
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Is there some documentation, which explains aliases, the HFS+ filesystem
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and similar things?
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Gerriet.
Ever tried to set OmniWeb as your preferred browser in the Internet System
Preference? :)
The Inside Macintosh and Inside Carbon will give you information on aliases.
Aliases are good.
/ david