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Subject: Re: FLASH: autorun file for Mac
From: Michael Greenberg
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 00:52:20 +0100

Jason,
This is true Jason,but what I have done in the past was to make a Director
exe with nothing in it except a simple call to whatever file type I would
like to open and you are all set.

Simple workaround I guess:)

Michael

> From: Jason Bouwmeester <jasonatintervisual [dot] com>
> Reply-To: flasheratchinwag [dot] com
> Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 16:18:32 -0600
> To: "'flasheratchinwag [dot] com'" <flasheratchinwag [dot] com>
> Subject: RE: FLASH: autorun file for Mac
>
> Not totally that simple, as far as I know the file that autorun can open has
> to be of a .exe or .com extension. Correct me if I am wrong...
>
> jb
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Greenberg [macmikeatatl [dot] mindspring [dot] com (mailto:macmikeatatl [dot] mindspring [dot] com)]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 4:08 PM
> To: flasheratchinwag [dot] com
> Subject: Re: FLASH: autorun file for Mac
>
>
> Vicki,
> On the PC take this script and paste it into a text file and name it
> autorun.inf
>
> [autorun]
> open= the file you want to open
>
> Pretty simple,eh:)
>
> Michael
>
>
> on 5/10/00 4:35 PM, Vicki Loader at vicki [dot] loaderatbtinternet [dot] com wrote:
>
>> Michael
>>
>> Any help on how to do an autorun for a PC...?
>>
>> Regards
>> Vicki
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Michael Greenberg" <macmikeatatl [dot] mindspring [dot] com>
>> To: <flasheratchinwag [dot] com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 2:27 AM
>> Subject: Re: FLASH: autorun file for Mac
>>
>>
>>> Hi Chris,
>>> Autorun on a Mac works much differently than on a PC. The only kinda
> thing
>>> you can do is have your root directory pop open.
>>>
>>> As far as I know the only type of autorun that you can do is with
>> quicktime
>>> and even then the user has to have autorun enabled.


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