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Browser Configuration Help

Please verify your browser configuration. Some browsers need to be set up so that they opens MIME type 'text/x-truefilespec' with FlightCheck Online, and use file type 'TrFS' on Macintosh.

On the Macintosh, you should make sure the desktop database is in good working order - if in doubt, hold Command-Option during the next restart, until the Mac asks if you want to rebuild the desktop database. Click OK for each drive.

Choose the browser below that most closely resembles the version you are using for step-by-step instructions.

Macintosh

Netscape Navigator(tm) 1.1

Netscape Navigator(tm) 2.x

Netscape Navigator(tm) 3.x

Netscape Navigator(tm) 4.x or higher

Netscape Communicator(tm) 4.x or higher

Internet Explorer(r) 2.1

Internet Explorer(r) 3.x

Internet Explorer(r) 4.x or higher

Windows

Internet Explorer(r) 3.x or higher

Netscape Navigator(tm) 3.x or Netscape Communicator(tm) 3.x or higher


Configuring Netscape Navigator(tm) 1.1

Select the Options-Preferences... menu item

Select Helper Applications from the popup menu

Check the listing of helper applications, and delete any older references to 'text/x-truefilespec' that might exist.

Click New...

You see the Create New Mime Type dialog

Fill in the following data:
Mime Type: text
Mime Subtype: x-truefilespec

Click OK

Enter Extensions: .tfs

Click Browse... and select the FlightCheck Online application.

Select File Type TrFS from the popup.

Select the Action: Launch Application radio button.

Click OK

Note: Sometimes Netscape 1.1 will not fully register the new MIME type, and you might need to go to the same screen, select the text/x-truefilespec entry from the listing of helper applications, and re-select file type 'TrFS' to make it 'stick'.

Quit FlightCheck Online and the browser - if you had dragged a document onto FlightCheck Online before doing the browser configuration above, you will have to drag that document onto FlightCheck Online again.

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Configuring Netscape Navigator(tm) 2.x

Select the Options-General Preferences... menu item

Select the Helpers tab

Check the listing of helper applications, and delete any older references to 'text/x-truefilespec' that might exist.

Click New...

You see the Create New Mime Type dialog

Fill in the following data:
Mime Type: text
Mime Subtype: x-truefilespec

Click OK

Enter Extensions: .tfs

Click Browse... and select the FlightCheck Online application.

Select File Type TrFS from the popup.

Select the Action: Launch Application radio button.

Click OK

Quit FlightCheck Online and the browser - if you had dragged a document onto FlightCheck Online before doing the browser configuration above, you will have to drag that document onto FlightCheck Online again.

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Configuring Netscape Navigator(tm) 3.x

Select the Options-General Preferences... menu item

Select the Helpers tab

Check the listing of helper applications, and delete any older references to 'text/x-truefilespec' or 'TrueFile Spec' that might exist.

Click New...

Fill in the following data:
Description: TrueFile Spec
MIME Type: text/x-truefilespec
Suffixes: .tfs
Handled by: Application

Click Browse... and select the FlightCheck Online application.

Then select TrFS from the File Type: popup.

Click OK; click OK again to close the preferences.

Quit FlightCheck Online and the browser - if you had dragged a document onto FlightCheck Online before doing the browser configuration above, you will have to drag that document onto FlightCheck Online again.

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Configuring Netscape Navigator(tm) 4.x or higher

Select the Edit-Preferences... menu item.

Open the Navigator item, and select subitem Applications.

Check the listing of helper applications, and delete any older references to 'text/x-truefilespec' or 'TrueFile Spec' that might exist.

Click New...

Fill in the following data:
Description: TrueFile Spec
MIME Type: text/x-truefilespec
Suffixes: .tfs
Handled by: Application

Click the Choose... button and select the FlightCheck Online application.

Then select TrFS from the File Type: popup.

Click OK; click OK again to close the preferences.

Quit FlightCheck Online and the browser - if you had dragged a document onto FlightCheck Online before doing the browser configuration above, you will have to drag that document onto FlightCheck Online again.

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Configuring Netscape Communicator(tm) 4.x

Select the Edit-Preferences... menu item.

Open the Navigator item, and select subitem Applications.

Check the listing of helper applications, and delete any older references to 'text/x-truefilespec' or 'TrueFile Spec' that might exist.

Click New...

Fill in the following data:
Description: TrueFile Spec
MIME Type: text/x-truefilespec
Suffixes: .tfs
Handled by: Application

Click the Choose... button and select the FlightCheck Online application.

Then select TrFS from the File Type: popup.

Click OK; click OK again to close the preferences.

Quit FlightCheck Online and the browser - if you had dragged a document onto FlightCheck Online before doing the browser configuration above, you will have to drag that document onto FlightCheck Online again.

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Configuring Internet Explorer(r) 2.1

Select the Edit-Options... menu item.

Click the Helpers tab.

Continue the steps below if the 'Use Internet Config Preferences' checbox is deselected (at the bottom of screen).

Check the listing of helper applications, and delete any older references to 'text/x-truefilespec' or 'TrueFile Spec' that might exist.

Click Add...

Fill in the following data:
Description: TrueFile Spec
MIME Type: text/x-truefilespec
Suffixes: .tfs
Encoding: Text

Click the Choose... button and select the FlightCheck Online application.

Then select Use a Helper Application from the How to handle: popup.

Set the file type to TrFS.

Click New; click OK to close the options.

Quit FlightCheck Online and the browser - if you had dragged a document onto FlightCheck Online before doing the browser configuration above, you will have to drag that document onto FlightCheck Online again.

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Configuring Internet Explorer(r) 3.0

Select the Edit-Preferences... menu item.

Open the Receiving Files item.

Select File Helpers.

Check the listing of helper applications, and delete any older references to 'text/x-truefilespec' or 'TrueFile Spec' that might exist.

Click Add...

Fill in the following data:
Description: TrueFile Spec
Extension: .tfs
MIME Type: text/x-truefilespec

Click the Browse... button and select the FlightCheck Online application.

Set the file type to TrFS.

Set the encoding to Plain Text

Of the three checkboxes, leave only Use for incoming selected.

Set Download to to Temporary Items Folder

Set the How to Handle popup to View with Application.

Click the Browse... button at the bottom of the screen and select the FlightCheck Online application if the application at the bottom of the screen is not FlightCheck Online.

Click OK; click OK again to close the preferences.

When using FlightCheck Online, some versions of Internet Explorer 3.0 will prompt you where to save 'post-request.acgi' - save anywhere you like: this is a temporary file which will be removed automatically by FlightCheck Online.

Quit FlightCheck Online and the browser - if you had dragged a document onto FlightCheck Online before doing the browser configuration above, you will have to drag that document onto FlightCheck Online again.

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Configuring Internet Explorer(r) 4.x or higher

No browser configuration is needed.

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Configuring Windows Internet Explorer(r) 3.x or higher

No browser configuration is needed.

When going through the very first job with FlightCheck Online, the browser will present you with a dialog that asks whether you want to open or save a file with a .tfs extension. This file is a TrueFile Spec sent by the web server for FlightCheck Online to process. Select Open this file from its current location. If possible, de-select the checkbox Always show this dialog. If you cannot deselect it, try to do it next time you send a file.

The very first TrueFile Spec (.tfs extension) that will be sent by the FlightCheck Online server will sometimes not be recognized by the browser, and you will be presented with a list of applications to open it with. If that happens, please select the FlightCheck Online application (which could have a slightly different name) from the list of applications, and click OK.

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Configuring Windows Netscape Communicator(tm) 3.x or Netscape Navigator(tm) 3.x or higher

No browser configuration is needed.

When going through the very first job with FlightCheck Online, the browser will present you with a dialog that asks whether you want to open or save a file with a .tfs extension. This file is a TrueFile Spec sent by the web server for FlightCheck Online to process. Select Open this file from its current location. If possible, de-select the checkbox Always show this dialog. If you cannot deselect it, try to do it next time you send a file.

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