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   My question regards relative links in HTML documents when read on LINUX
browsers.

   The Electric Emperor CD-ROM (of Jack Herer's "The Emperor Wears No Clothes:
the Authorative Historical Record of the * Plant, * Prohibition,
and How Hemp Can Still Save the World") includes a presentation of the entire
book in HTML (web) format, in order to reach as many OSs and machines as
possible.

   I received feedback that none of the relative links (of the form
href="../../02/PCH02_10.HTM") work on LINUX. I do know that they work on
Macintosh, Windows, and OS/2.

   The person who reported the flaw theorized that it was a '/' '\'
(forward/back slash) problem.

   The use of the '/' in relative and absolute links is part of the HTML
standard.

   Is this the problem? Does LINUX actually require a complete seperate version
of all the files (approx 150 MB worth) just to implement a completely
non-standard version of HTML? Is there a work-around that LINUX users can use?
Or is the cause some other problem?

   Thanks....

Check the case of the filenames on the CD - Linux is case sensitive, so
*.htm is not the same as *.HTM.  If they indeed do not match, then
perhaps change all the filenames on the CD and all the links to
lowercase.  This will not cause any problem for Windows et al users.

- Ben

"Windows is an operating system, not a religion."
- Ted Waitt, chairman of Gateway