[X-Apps] URL files from IE on a PC

[zippy]

Not sure what's happened in your case, but when I clicked these links,
I got both websites right away.  I'm using OS 9.2 on my iMac, could that
make a difference?  Zippy
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> From: Steven Rogers <srogers1 at austin.rr.com>
> Reply-To: "X-Applications" <X-Apps at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 21:59:11 -0500
> To: "X-Applications" <X-Apps at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: [X-Apps] URL files from IE on a PC
> 
> 
> People on that "other" operating system are always sending me links
> that are .URL files with a format like this:
> 
> [DEFAULT]
> BASEURL=http://www.handspring.com/software/blazer_overview.jhtml
> 
> [InternetShortcut]
> URL=http://www.handspring.com/software/blazer_overview.jhtml
> Modified=C0B6FACBA7D3C20178
> 
> I guess they come from IE on the PC - except that neither IE nor
> Netscape on the Mac seems to do anything with it. IE will show it like
> a text file, but Netscape just locks up. The best I could figure out to
> do is make a text reader the "helper" application for that file in
> Netscape (I normally use Netscape) then copy the URL from the text
> window and paste it into the browser.
> 
> Anyone know if there's a way to make these things work by just double
> clicking on them? It would be worth it to write a program that parses
> the file, extracts the URL, and calls the system default browser with
> it. Danged annoying that IE on the PC generates stuff that IE on the
> Mac won't work with.
> 
> SR
> 
> 
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