On Jul 25, 2007, at 5:24 PM, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > On 7/25/07, Gerhard Fiedler wrote: >>> >>> Anyone have a workaround, besides "Use IE"? >> >> Come to think of it, considering what Peter says, the file: >> protocol is >> actually the workaround :) >> >> The real solution would probably be to set up a web server on the >> file >> server and serve the files in question through http:. Then the >> link would >> be http://server/virtualdir/filename.doc. Setting up a web server >> is easy >> enough on both Win2k and Linux. >> > > I hate this thingy of serving files through http expecially under > Windows > with long file names. Very ugly. > > The real solution seems to use IE;-) My rant notwithstanding, they make a nice "open this page in IE" add- on for Firefox. It works wonders for such problems, and you can give people a URL to install it themselves, go home and have a beer far faster that way. -- Nate Duehr nate@natetech.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist