Saving PPT Files as Web Files

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Mark A.

I'm using PP2K. In PP2K, is there a way in which
presentations and all support files in the support folders
can automatically be saved as web pages with the file
extension html, as opposed to htm? I know that one can
manually override that. But what about all the files that
get saved in pres.xml, outline.htm etc. Am I missing
something simple here? The reason for this question: web
host does not allow any files with an htm file extension,
only html.

Thanks in advance.
 
I'm using PP2K. In PP2K, is there a way in which
presentations and all support files in the support folders
can automatically be saved as web pages with the file
extension html, as opposed to htm? I know that one can
manually override that. But what about all the files that
get saved in pres.xml, outline.htm etc. Am I missing
something simple here? The reason for this question: web
host does not allow any files with an htm file extension,
only html.
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I think I'd shop for a web host that has at least a quarter-clue what
they're doing.
Seriously - I've never heard of a web server that can't handle htm or html
equally happily.
 
Are you sure that's their requirement, or do they only require that the
default page has an HTML file extension? Or are they just biased?
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This brings up another question.
Would changing the htm files to html break the links?
 
Thanks for the hint Sonia. You lead me in the right
direction. The html requirement was indeed only for the
default page (my mistake). I got the presentation to work
in the meantime. Thanks again.
 
Thanks for letting us know, Mark. That's what I thought, because a host
that dictated what your file extensions must be (other than the default
page) would be a host you would want to avoid at all costs.
 
This brings up another question.
Would changing the htm files to html break the links?
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On a unix/linux/whatevernix server, yes. On other flavors of web server,
I'm not sure, but probably so.
NT/2000/XP are a bit weird about this. They distinguish between the two
extensions such that you can have both TEST.HTM and TEST.HTML in the same
folder. You can type START TEST.HTM or START TEST.HTML and you'll get the
proper one in the browser.

But DIR *.HTM gets you a listing of both, which it really shouldn't. It
seems that it implicitly does:

DIR *.HTM* when you do DIR *.HTM

Dir TEST.DUM lists both TEST.DUM and TEST.DUMB for example.

Weird.
 
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