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To: Karin who wrote (4190)	6/22/1999 1:56:00 AM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110644

hi karin, the url for your .gif can be viewed by right-clicking on it and selecting 'copy image location' from the menu. this works in netscape. internet explorer must have a similar selection. you do not need to download an image to link to it. by right-clicking it, and selecting 'view image', the .gif will open by itself in the browser window. you can then copy the url from the location bar, or do as i suggested first (copy image location). try it, and see what happens. :) mark

To: Karin who wrote (4190)	6/22/1999 9:10:00 AM
From: PMS Witch	Respond to of 110644

Getting your files onto the internet... You may have confused some of us when you posted you're trying to download your files first. If I understand correctly, what you're trying to do is to copy these files from you computer to somewhere else. This process is usually called an UPload, while a DOWNload is copying files TO your system. My ISP has reserved some disk space on their server for each customer to store files they want to make available on-line. When we, as customers, want to make something available, such as a home page, we must copy the file from our system to the ISP's server first. The ISP tells us where we may place these files and since we already know where they are on our system, it's just a matter of getting them copied. We do this with FTP (File Transfer, Perhaps??) a program which handles copying files from one machine to another over the internet. Download a (graphical) easy to use copy of FTP, because the (command line based) FTP supplied with Windows98 isn't as easy to use. Once you have FTP running, and the source and destinations appearing in the proper window panes, click the 'Send' button. (Or 'Receive', since FTP works both ways.) Once copied, the files will be available to anyone on-line who knows the correct URL. I believe Office2000 automates this process. Office97 does too, but getting these things configured can pose challenges of their own. Hope this helps, PW.