Re: EMERGENCY: opening application form a URL

[Bob James]

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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