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Article #693Re: Public labs & Netscape prefs; Eudora Folder
From: bill warfel
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 00:00
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 00:00
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At 05:29 PM 2/15/96 EST, you wrote:
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>How do others handle Internet access in a public lab using the standard
>Internet tools....
>
>Eudora creates a Eudora Folder in the System Folder. I have written a script
>that opens the Eudora Settings file of a Eudora Folder located on our
fileserver
>in place of the one in the System Folder for each user.
>
>Netscape also creates a Netscape folder in the Preferences Folder within
>the System Folder. This folder is by default used for the cache, preferences
>and bookmarks. Although you can open Netscape from a different Prefs file,
>the cache is then on the fileserver rather than the local hard drive.
>
>Are there other solutions?
We setup Eudora to run with a diskette for users. This has cured the
problems of the server.
As for Netscape, we set up a ram drive for the cache & misc temp files on
the workstations and defaulted work directory to A:.
Just a thought,
Bill
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