[WEB4LIB] Re: CD Launch from Web Browser

[Angus Waddell]

Hi Sarah & Gary,

I'm new to this list as well - and would just like to let you know that I have nearly completed a program (I just have to finish the administration screens) that will launch databases and any other application you configure from a web browser. This works with Novell NetWare and have tested it on Win '95 & NT machines. If you (or anyone else for that matter) are interested please feel free to email me for more details on  angus.waddell at rmit.edu.au 

Cheers

Gus



Angus Waddell
RMIT University Library
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Information Strategy Unit
+61 3 9925 3983
angus.waddell at rmit.edu.au

>>> "Sarah L. Neises" <sneises at umich.edu> 05/28/99 09:10AM >>>
Hearty thanks to everyone who responded with helpful info. I've printed
suggestions and I am going to talk to my Academic Computing folks who do
our networking for us. We're going to look at options such as W3Launch,
NT Script, etc. We have a very small group of CD's to network, probably
only 8-10 and that number is dropping all the time. We find our web based
resources/databases are extremely popular and much easier to manage. This
list is very helpful. - Sarah Neises neises at uwosh.edu 



On Thu, 27 May 1999, John Hambleton, Academic Information Services wrote:

> >Netscape 4.x and IE 4.x
> >will launch batch files (*.bat) found in a URL.
> >I like IE's security controls best--you can easily turn off the
> >dialog upon launch of a batch file that asks "Do you want to
> >save this file or run it?". In your batch files of course would be
> >drive mappings to your CD applications that you may have on a Netware
> >server, plus the reference to the application file itself that you
> >want to launch. It's that easy.
> >I'm actually using this approach myself, but launching the batch files
> >with the shareware W3Launch (just search the Web to find it). And to
> >stay legal, I'm using Elron's Softrack metering software on my Netware
> >server to be sure that we don't exceed the number of licenses for our
> >CD apps.
> >Mr. H
> >
> >
> >
> >At 10:05 AM 5/26/1999 -0700, you 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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