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Netscape Navigator has an easy way to share your favorite Web sites with other Web crawlers. You can do this by making the contents of your bookmark list an HTML file, which can then be exported to other users (you can also import HTML files as bookmarks). A little background first: An HTML file is just a text document that contains links to other Web documents. Because HTML documents have a standard format, they can be interpreted by any Web browser. This means you can share files, through importing and exporting, with anyone with any Web browser. Here's how to make a bookmark file ready for export:
1) Choose Bookmarks\Go to Bookmarks from the main Netscape Navigator menu. This opens the Bookmarks window.
2) Select the bookmark file that you want to export, then choose File\Save as. This opens the Save bookmarks file dialog box.
3) Choose the location you want to save the file to, then enter a filename. Make sure you have the Save As type box set to "HTML files."
4) Click Save and the HTML file is created in the directory that you specified.
Importing HTML files as bookmarks is a snap as well. Here's how:
1) Choose Bookmarks\Go to Bookmarks.
2) From the Bookmarks menu, select File\Import.
3) Select the HTML file that you want to import and click Open (or simply double-click it). The links that are in the file are immediately added to your bookmarks list.
Reprint from the Databus, A Dayton Microcomputer Association Inc. Publication, March 1997.
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