launching *.exe application

[Thomas McMillan Grant Bennett]

We are using a Merridian 28CD CDROM Tower.  They have a new software
product, CD Intranet, which is advertised to "access any kind of CD or
DVD title from within Web browsers on intrantnets, including traditional
Windows and DOS CDs, or media containing graphics or HTML files."  I
think there is a demo copy available from their web site at
www.meridian.com.

Only one time was I able to launch a batchfile from a WEB link. I
associated .bat with command.com as the helper program.  The only
problem was I gave the executable a wrong name in the batch file and
netscape would no longer go to dos from a link to a batch file after
that.

Thomas Bennett

Alan Boyd wrote:

> We would like to try to standardize on a web interface for library
> public (Win
> 95) workstations, but several of our machines also need to run
> standalone
> CD-ROM applications (e.g. specialized Art and Science databases).
> Right now
> we just have the Windows desktop plastered with icons for each of the
> CD
> products as well as the Netscape icon.  I'd be nice to actually be
> able to
> bypass the desktop icons on these specific workstations and launch
> numerous
> different Windows applications from  URLs embedded in some HTML text.
> We
> could then do a better job of explaining what each product does and
> just say
> "insert the CD and click here to search the database".  We don't know
> of any
> way for Netscape helper applications to differentiate launching
> "aaa.exe" or
> "bbb.exe".  Has anybody found a way to work around this?
>
> 
> Alan Boyd
> Associate Director of Libraries
> Oberlin College Library
> Oberlin, OH 44074
> (216) 775-8285 x229
> (216) 775-8739 (fax)
> Alan.Boyd at oberlin.edu



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