1) Start Notepad. 2) In the first line type: MAXPT 3) Follow MAXPT with a space and then enter the complete URL that points to the actual .maxFR file of your project.  For example:           MAXPT http://www.company.com/webfolder/projectxx.maxfr Or MAXPT http://ebs.sas.usace.army.mil/Solicitations/DACA21-03-R-0073/Plans/INDEX.MAXFR   4) Save the file and close Notepad 5) Rename the file extension from *.TXT to *.maxFR           NOTE: You will get a notice that changing an extension may make the file unusable.                     Ignore this message. 6) Move this file into the top-level folder of your project. 7) Have the website (HTML) link point to this .maxFR pointer file.  When a user accesses your website and clicks on the web URL, the pointer file will now re-direct MaxView to the actual location of the *.maxFR file for the project.  Why do we use "Pointer Files"? The reason MaxView uses pointer files is to provide selective on-line Internet access to the large format drawing files and other documents that were organized by the Author into a MaxView file.  Pointer files are direction files that enable MaxView to directly access all related data files on the web using its built-in HTTP or HTTPS protocol. Web browsers, such as IE and Netscape, assume that only web browsers have the ability to access the data it needs using the HTTP protocol.  Because of this assumption, when we try to access a maxFR file via an HTML hyperlink, the web browser downloads the maxFR file to its local temporary cache.  Then it activates MaxView directing it to open the local copy of the maxFR file in its cache... something like this:  MaxView C:\Windows\TemporaryInternetFiles\...\constructionplans.maxfr With this address, MaxView, the application, has no idea where the file originated.  This maxFR file was probably created so the image files would be found in the same directory as the maxFR file.  But the browser only downloaded the maxFR file to its cache, not the image files, and left MaxView with no idea where to find the image files.  As a remedy for this problem, we created the pointer file.  When MaxView opens the pointer file it immediately recognizes that it does not contain the document index and the other data found in a "regular" maxFR file, but only the correct address where the real maxFR index file can be found.  MaxView can then retrieve the maxFR index file and use the URL to retrieve the image files. October 2004 Note - Users with Windows XP Home or Pro with SP2 installation may experience issues accessing MaxView document files through pointer files.  Please report any instances immediately to techsupport@maxview.com.