Donna Schumann and W3launch

[Parr, Catherine]

Donna,
I tried to reply to you directly but your email address of
schumann at timberland.lib.wa.us did not appear to be working. Hopefully
you can still get web4lib 'tho.

I had the same problem with W3launch and it almost drove me batty before
I worked it out by accident.
In program listing follow this eg:
Title = xyz (xyz is the name you decide)
File name = c:\path (the path for launching the program)
and save.
Then edit the xyz file as follows:
Title=xyz
command=c:\path
Path=c:\path
originator=w3l
and save.
Then on the page to lookup the software
in Group title=xyz
in program title=xyz
and originator=w3l

Hope this helps. Don't hesitate to ask if you have problems. We've been
using it happily for about 8 months.
Cath

Catherine, please take pity on me and see if you can tell me what I'm
doing wrong. I think that I'm probably doing something dumb, but
reading and re-reading the W3Launch documentation hasn't helped, nor
has stealing syntax from the W3Launch web site gotten me any
forwarder. I'd be eternally grateful if you'd take a look at what I've 
done. FYI, we are still using version 3.X for both Netscape and IE.

When I select the link to W3Launch on my web page, I get an error
message
saying "Unable to find group title in local files." 

Here is how I have things set up:

I have all of the W3Launch executable files in the c:\anzio folder. 

On my client PC, I have the following trlcat.lst file in c:\anzio:

******************
[Software]
Count=1
Title1=Catalog
Originator1=W3Launch
MajorVersion1=3
MinorVersion1=1
Command1=c:\anzio\anziopub.exe l
Path1=
*************************

Also on my client I have the following w3launch.ini file in c:\anzio:

*************************
;This is the main set up file for w3launch

[Groups]
Count=1
Title1=Catalog
File1=c:\anzio\trlcat.lst
*****************

On my web server, I have web page with the following link:

<A HREF="trlcat.w3l">Dynix</A>

In the same directory as my web page, I have a trlcat.w3l file
containing
the following (syntax lifted from mbmwww.leeds.ac.uk):

*************************
;this heading allows use of profile routines in windows to read the file
[Software]

;the title of the software
Title=Catalog

;will select the appropriate software listing file
Group=trlcat.lst

;specifies that error message should be given on other systems
System=

;optional line allows client to distinguish between products with same
name
Originator=

;this is ignored by my launcher but your launcher might do something
;clever with it...
Yourkeyhere=thingy

;optional version number can be used to make sure that the client
;is up to date.  Error or warning will be generated by launcher
;if these don't tally with local record
MajorVersion=3
MinorVersion=1

;these entries can be any order as long as they follow the [Software]
heading
RejectOlder=No
RejectNewer=No

****************************

I hope that you can help me!

Regards, Donna

--------------------------------------------------------------
Donna Schumann                  Application System Specialist 
Timberland Regional Library     360-704-4542 FAX: 360-586-6838 
Olympia, Washington             schumann at timberland.lib.wa.us 




Catherine Parr
User Support Specialist
Information Technology
Canterbury Public Library
Phone  (03) 379 6914 Fax  (03) 365 1751
http://www.ccc.govt.nz/Library/