Re: PNG's in Netscape using EOG

[Andy Smith <amsmith pmail net>]

Loban Rahman <loban@enigma.caltech.edu> writes:

> > As I understand it, Netscape displays PNG's fine when they are on a site like
> > <IMG SRC="ping.png"> but it chokes if you link to a PNG that the browser will
> > be displaying by itself. I don't know why, that's just what it does for me.
> 
> Yes, that is my problem EXACTLY.
> So, anyone know how to rectify that (with EOG/Plugger/etc. or without)?

In the Netscape preferences dialog, go to Navigator/Applications and
edit/add the "PNG image" (image/png) handler so it is handled by the
application "eog %s" (or whatever other program you want to use).

    Andy
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