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« on: May 20, 2002, 10:06:29 AM »
Jak and Jor,
Thanks for the responses. Jor, in response to your question, I have several versions of 6.02 installed including 1066 and 1087. I'm hanging on to them because of the bookmarklet problem, among other things. You are correct about Opera not being designed to launch external programs, but one forum member has reported a method to accomplish this, to a degree, by changing the file type associations for .exe file to open with the default application. This is not practical, since it would mean constantly changing this association back and forth to either download or open these files. I've always figured that where there's a will, there's a way,(maybe not in this case). I guess what would be needed is a way to only open a selective exe, while downloading the rest. I tried renaming the OFE file to an arbitrary extension, and creating a new file type in Opera preferences to deal with it,but so far, I haven't been able to make it work. Still trying.
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