[WEB4LIB] CD Launch from Web Browser

[Sarah L. Neises]

Hearty thanks to everyone who responded with helpful info. I've printed
suggestions and I am going to talk to my Academic Computing folks who do
our networking for us. We're going to look at options such as W3Launch,
NT Script, etc. We have a very small group of CD's to network, probably
only 8-10 and that number is dropping all the time. We find our web based
resources/databases are extremely popular and much easier to manage. This
list is very helpful. - Sarah Neises neises at uwosh.edu



On Thu, 27 May 1999, John Hambleton, Academic Information Services wrote:

> >Netscape 4.x and IE 4.x
> >will launch batch files (*.bat) found in a URL.
> >I like IE's security controls best--you can easily turn off the
> >dialog upon launch of a batch file that asks "Do you want to
> >save this file or run it?". In your batch files of course would be
> >drive mappings to your CD applications that you may have on a Netware
> >server, plus the reference to the application file itself that you
> >want to launch. It's that easy.
> >I'm actually using this approach myself, but launching the batch files
> >with the shareware W3Launch (just search the Web to find it). And to
> >stay legal, I'm using Elron's Softrack metering software on my Netware
> >server to be sure that we don't exceed the number of licenses for our
> >CD apps.
> >Mr. H
> >
> >
> >
> >At 10:05 AM 5/26/1999 -0700, you wrote:
> >>I'm new to this list and I would like some help with a launching CD's from
> >>a web browser (we're using Netscape 4.05). We are currently using Carl
> >>Everybody's Menu to provide integrated access to our telnet catalog,
> >>CD-ROMs and web resources. We're moving to a web catalog next December,
> >>and are thinking about getting rid of Carl for a variety of reasons. Most
> >>of our CD's are launched right now through Carl using a UNC address for
> >>each CD that looks something like this:
> >>\\polk1\software\spirs\winspirs.exe i: Each CD is mapped to a different
> >>drive letter. They are not standard paths, e.g.
> >>c:\progra~1\newsba~2\newsbank.exe We are in a Windows 95/Novell Netware
> >>environment. Any pearls of wisdom about the latest and greatest ways to
> >>launch CD's from a browser? I'd even be curious about ways to launch CD's
> >>with "normal" paths. Searched through the archives, but couldn't find what
> >>I was looking for, or maybe I missed it. TIA- Sarah
> >>
> >>Sarah Neises
> >>Polk Library
> >>University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
> >>neises at uwosh.edu
> >>http://www.uwosh.edu/library/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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