RE: EMERGENCY: opening application form a URL

[Christian Cook]

Cheers Bob but Netscape is still trying to save it.


Guess I'll have to persuade the client to goo all IE. :(




Cheers again anyway for the response.


Christian.


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	From:  Bob James [SMTP:

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	Sent:  26 February 1998 15:50

	To:

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christian [dot] cookisluk [dot] com

	Subject:  Re: EMERGENCY: opening application form a URL


	If you remember, at 07:28 PM 2/26/98 , Christian Cook wrote:

	>Have designed an intranet in Flash for a large financial group

in London

	>but cannot seem to get the buttons to open an application, I am

using

	>GET URL with the link- file:///C:\Program Files\Microsoft

	>Office\Office\WINWORD.EXE


	Christian, I think I may have your answer. Your problem actually

reminded

	me of a passage from a JavaScript book talking about Netscape

2.0 (and

	early 3.0 version's) problems loading local files.


	Your file reference -- file:///C:\Program -- may have 2 problems

in it. (I

	didn't test, so maybe I'm wrong.)


	1. You used a \ character after C:, instead of /.


	2. (This was from the JS book). In a local file reference you

must put a

	pipe character -- the | character (which is Shift + Backslash on

the PC.)

	after the drive.


	So the reference you need, according to the book, is:



	file:///C|/directory/program


	Book also says this will work:



	file:/C|/directory/program.


	Hope this helps,


	BJ







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