Dose w3launch program work?

[Dave Binkley]

You have to add w3l as a MIME type on your server.  That done it should
work fine.

Wendy Wu wrote:
> 
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> Have you ever had experience with using w3launch program to launch the
> applications at the desktop? We could not make it work as the demo on the
> Internet. I created a file with the extension .w3l and uploaded it to the
> server, and a file with the extension .lst at the PC. But when I click at
> the link at the web page, the browser just displayed the file I created
> instead of launching the application. Does server require specific
> configuration to do so or have I not done it correctly?
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help in advance.
> 
> Wendy G. Wu                     Phone   : (313) 577 0586
> Shiffman Medical Library        Fax     : (313) 577-0706
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