Walter,
Thank you. (and BTW I like your sig!)
Walter Dnes wrote:
<snip!> <rgh wrote> Can Mozilla SHARE the Win/Netscape bookmarks, history, eddress-book, **and** local accumulated-mail folders with my Win/Netscape ?
Feel free to jump in and educate me, Nick, folks!
<walter wrote> Well, since you asked... - Netscape up to and including version 4.x was proprietary software with abysmal spaghetti code.
- Netscape 6 and onwards *IS* Mozilla. Specifically, it's an AOL-branded Mozilla 1.x "distro", complete with AOL's AIM and other AOL garbage, which you may not want. The only problem I expect is that you may not be able to have both installed simultaneously due to the fact that they have the vast majority of their files the same.
You should be able to copy stuff back and forth. They're the same programs. I don't see any problems other than copying pure text files between linux and Windows; <LF> versus <CR><LF>.
I fired up Moz under Lin, and read some stuff about migration. Moz says that you CANNOT (their emphasis) share the same set of files between Mozilla & Netscape, so it seems that you're right about copying. I suppose that I can figure out a shell-script or two for lin-start & lin-stop to keep sync'd, but what a pain. OTOH, it does look like I can use a several-step process to permanently move all the N stuff to M, and just use M for both O/Ss. I suppose that I need to arrange a test of M & its mail-client, so I'll know if I can accept the change-over. I'm thinking about it.
As for AIM, I don't use chat currently, may in the future. I am not concerned about open/proprietary, as long as everything works right. I don't know if AIM itself is supposed to have problems -- I don't read about it/them yet, since I am not using; once/if I ever decide to use, I'll find the then-current data to decide with.
Thank You Again!, robert.
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