[WEB4LIB] autorun.inf?

[Thomas Bennett]

When I was looking into the same matter I recall that you don't need third
party software if you are calling an executable.  I've used autostart.exe
from http://www.startertool.com/ to open web pages although while searching
for the starter tool site I found
http://visualbasic.about.com/library/weekly/aa021201b.htm which gives you
the visual basic source code to create your own autostart.exe .  Although
their example:

[autorun]
open=iexplore.exe photoalbum.htm
icon=photoalbum.ico

 shows the need for autostart.exe because you don't know if the user has
iexplore or not.  When I tried using open that way on a machine that did
have iexplore.exe, autorun did not work on win 9x but did on win2k.  It is
also my understanding that this will not autostart on MAC.

You may also want to look at Autorun.inf Commands at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/pla
tform/Shell/Shell_basics/Autoplay_cmds.asp

Note: the url above will wrap on some email viewers and that's why you get
an error.

Thomas




-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Rachel Singer Gordon
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 11:03 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] autorun.inf?


Hi all -

We're starting a project in which we will be burning some digitized
local history videos (in quicktime format) to CD. Since we are
probably going to be including multiple clips on a single CD, I
thought it might be useful to create a web page to include on the CD
as an index to the clips.

I want the web page to load automatically when someone inserts the
CD, so then they can just click the desired file name to watch a
video clip. Can I do this with an autorun.inf file, or do I need to
download one of the many freeware programs I see out there that are
meant to launch HTML files from CD? Has anyone done this sort of
thing, and what would you all recommend -- is there an easier way to
create an index to the CD that I am missing? We're kind of new at
this, so I'm just feeling my way through here.

Thanks,
- Rachel


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