[thelist] Autorun?

[Gary Finnigan]

I learned something there. Cheers everyone.
Gary
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From: "aardvark" <roselli at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: [thelist] Autorun?


> > From: "Flavia Silveira-Tarzwell (FayeC)" <fayec at canada.com>
> > 
> > I am looking for information on how to make a cd autostart.
> > I know I need to place an autorun file with the file that need to be
> > run but I don't know what to write on the autorun file... Anybody?
> 
> you can't just call an HTML page via Windows autorun, it won't 
> work...
> 
> that being said, here's a freeware executable that acts as sort of a 
> proxy to the autorun:
> 
> http://duckware.com/winopen.html
> 
> WinOpen 1.2a
> Open HTML files in a CD AUTORUN.INF 
> For Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, etc. 
> 
> This program is freeware and subject to use under a license 
> agreement. If you use this program, please send us an e-mail 
> letting us know how you are using it and how well (or not) is has 
> worked for you. 
> 
> TIP: Actually WinOpen will open any file type as long as the 
> computer running your CD has a program associated with that file 
> type (eg: pdf, doc, txt, bmp, jpg, mpg).  
> 
> 
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