[thelist] Auto start PC web cdrom
aardvark
roselli at earthlink.net
Tue Jul 10 15:32:42 CDT 2001
> From: Nick Senior <concaflagration at mac.com>
>
> A client asked me to make a CDROM of the site I just made for them.
> MAC/PC hybrid. For some odd reason win 2000 (I think) drops the file
> extention from the file names. Through a web browser, all links work
> fine. However that means that the:
it's not dropping them, it's hiding them... adjust your view in
Windows Explorer to show all file extensions...
> [autorun]
> open=index.html
>
> Script I am using wont work since it points to ³index.html² instead of
> ³index² am I doing something wrong with the auto run script or is
> there something wrong with the autorun script? The mac version works
> just peachy (as usual :) ) but I can¹t get the site to run
> automatically upon insertion of the CD on a PC. Help, please? You can
> email me personally at: buzzgfx at mac.com or just reply.
it's not working because you can't launch a browser, let alone a
.html page, from the 'open' command in an autorun file...
this thread has been discussed regularly, but since i think you
thought it was something else, i'll save you a trip to thelist
archives...
go here:
http://duckware.com/freeware.html
read this:
http://duckware.com/winopen.html
download this:
http://duckware.com/download/winopen.exe
make it happen...
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