Try staroffice with the %f (I think this passes the filename, but I might be way off in left field. Try also %s or %u) Also check out mswordview, this is what it's designed for.
--Mike "Stephen A. Witt" wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how to get Netscape to open up an application to > view a Word document. I've edited the Applications category within the > Navigator preferences to start StarOffice when a Word document is > selected. StarOffice does start up, but it doesn't open the Word document. > So, I'm thinking that I need to somehow provide the name of the file as a > parameter to StarOffice when it is executed. This does in fact work if I > execute StarOffice from the shell. Other than the obvious "don't read any > Word documents, because the authors must be lower forms of life, ", does > anyone have a clue as to how I can proceed with this? > > Thanks... > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null