[WEB4LIB] Script to execute a program

[TMGB]

Rather than copy previous replies and resending them, if you will do a
search on the archives for "NTScript" you will find following in the
Archives.  We are using our home page as our menu to everything.  There 
are links to networked, and local cds.

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/searchweb4lib.pl?query=NTScript&index=web4lib.swish

December 1997 
Re: linking to applications - TMGB - Dec 17, 1997
June 1998 
Re: Shortcuts to DOS programs - TMGB - Jun 25, 1998
July 1998 
Re: Registering MIME types - TMGB - Jul 14, 1998
September 1998 
[WEB4LIB] Re: Launching apps from Netscape - TMGB - Sep 1, 1998
December 1998 
[WEB4LIB] Re: MicroTest - TMGB - Dec 11, 1998
May 1999 
[WEB4LIB] Re: How to do a menu for library workstations? - TMGB -
May 4, 1999

I've been using NTScript for over a year and a half for uses like you
have described. Feel free to email me if you have any specific
questions.

Thomas

Jon Horstman wrote:
> 
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> Does anyone know how to set up a web page that will enable users to
> click a button in order to run an .exe file, or any other software
> program, from a CD-ROM? This sounds like a job for Javascript to me. We
> have a business CD station with 10 CDs and an equivilent web site listed
> for each one. We want to make a web page that users can access both CDs
> and web sites from a single interface.
> 
> Thanks
> Jon Horstman
> 
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