Netscape and BAT files question (fwd)

[Andrew J. Mutch]

Can anyone offer Rick some assistance with his problem??  One possible
solution I thought of -- but haven't tested to see if it will work -- is
to use BATSH as the application to launch the BAT files which would get
around the problem he describes.  If anyone else has a way to do this,
please forward a response to Rick or myself.

Thanks!

Andrew Mutch
Northville District Library
Northville, MI

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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 14:30:28 -0400
From: Rick Leveille <leveille at admin.umass.edu>
To: amutch at tln.lib.mi.us
Subject: Netscape and BAT files question

Andrew -

I've recently been looking through some documentation you posted at
http://tln.lib.mi.us/~nort/tech/kiosk.htm and I have a somewhat related
question that I wonder if you can help me with....

We're trying to launch BAT files from Netscape 4.05 (NT 4.0 Workstation
environment) and are trying to deal with the "Run or Save?" window that
appears the first time a BAT file is started in a given session.

While there is a check-off box in the window to prevent the re-display of
the window on subsequent start-ups of the BAT file in that session, we
cannot find a permanent way to disable the window.  The Netscape preferences
dialog for Applications allows a check-off box, "Ask me before opening
downloaded files of this type", to be unchecked for other application file
types, but not for MS-DOS batch files.

Do you know of any work-around for this problem??

Thanks very much for any insight you might have....


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