[WEB4LIB] Cd Launch from Web Browser

[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.

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


"Sarah L. Neises" wrote:
> 
> I'm new to this list and I would like some help with a launching CD's from
> a web browser (we're using Netscape 4.05). We are currently using Carl
> Everybody's Menu to provide integrated access to our telnet catalog,
> CD-ROMs and web resources. We're moving to a web catalog next December,
> and are thinking about getting rid of Carl for a variety of reasons. Most
> of our CD's are launched right now through Carl using a UNC address for
> each CD that looks something like this:
> \\polk1\software\spirs\winspirs.exe i: Each CD is mapped to a different
> drive letter. They are not standard paths, e.g.
> c:\progra~1\newsba~2\newsbank.exe We are in a Windows 95/Novell Netware
> environment. Any pearls of wisdom about the latest and greatest ways to
> launch CD's from a browser? I'd even be curious about ways to launch CD's
> with "normal" paths. Searched through the archives, but couldn't find what
> I was looking for, or maybe I missed it. TIA- Sarah
> 
> Sarah Neises
> Polk Library
> University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
> neises at uwosh.edu
> http://www.uwosh.edu/library/

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