[Javascript] Re: Opening file in another app

Peter Brunone peter at brunone.com
Thu Oct 18 20:11:36 CDT 2001


	Ah so.

	If you want a clicked file to open in UltraEdit, then it must be the
primary app registered for that file type.  Basically, you're not going to
be able to do this without telling all of your users to make registry
tweaks... which probably won't happen.

|-----Original Message-----
|From: javascript-admin at LaTech.edu [mailto:javascript-admin at LaTech.edu]On
|Behalf Of phumes1 at home.com
|Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 6:11 PM
|To: javascript at LaTech.edu
|Subject: Re: [Javascript] Re: Opening file in another app
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|UltraEdit is setup to open .txt and .dat file extensions. I'm not sure how
|to get it to open up in UltraEdit from a link
|with my page?
|
|
|At 04:45 PM 10/18/01 -0500, you wrote:
|
|>     If the user has an application registered to handle the
|pertinent file
|>type, then it will be opened in that application.  You can't
|really control
|>this from the server (although you can force it to save instead of opening
|>by pushing an unknown mimetype).
|>
|>----- Original Message -----
|>From: <phumes1 at home.com>
|>To: <javascript at LaTech.edu>
|>Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 4:08 PM
|>Subject: [Javascript] Re: Opening file in another app
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|>
|>|
|>| I have a list of files which have <a href"">...</a> around them. When a
|>| user clicks on a link, how can I have that "filename" open in
|UltraEdit or
|>| WordPad on the users PC? Has anyone done anything like this?
|>|
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