Bentley vs. Netscape

[Ti Kan]

Douglas Frank writes:
> Has anyone got their Bentley CD working with Netscape?
>
> This is with IE 6.0 and Ns 6.1:
>
> Netscape is my default browser, so when Bentley starts, it opens Ns and
> promptly fails because it can't find 'localhost' (127.0.0.1).  To use the
> manual, I've first gotta hand-start IE; Bentley will then use IE and runs
> fine.

I use netscape with the Bentley A4/S4 CD with no problems.
You might need to create a file called "hosts" in your c:\windows
directory, and in there, put the following line:

127.0.0.1	localhost

-Ti
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