Hi all - thanks to everyone who offered help on this - I think I might have made myself a bit obscure when describing the problem:
I have the CD autorunning - that was the easy bit. What I wanted to do was have a link on the HMTL page which opened Windows Explorer to view the file contents of the CD... Which I have now figured out After all the messing around trying to find the hard way to do it I got some sleep and some coffee and had a revelation... If you link to ../ then it opens the root of the current working drive ../foo opens the folder called foo in the root of the current drive... So simple - I kicked myself. Thanks again to everyone who offered help. Regards Steve Dunford 4WD Stuff ph. 021 637 600 fax 03 314 7257 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.4wdstuff.co.nz -----Original Message----- From: Paul Wilkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 21 August 2002 18:07 To: 'CLUG' Subject: Re: [OT] programming (Javascript?) help urgently needed... Steve Dunford wrote: > I have an HTML page on a CD, which has an autorun.inf, and will be > opened (98% of the time) on a windows box in IE (ducks for cover). A > link on the page needs to open an explorer window showing the current > CD ROM drive contents - this is my problem... > > Doesa anyone know how to extract the current CD ROM drive information > and get IE to open a windoze explorer window showing its contents, or > the contents of a subfolder on that drive? I've been searching for a > quick and dirty Javascript way to do it but can't find a way... The windows 9x cd had an option on the program that auto-started to let you explore the cd drive contents. Find out how that (and similar ones) were programmed and use for your own means. -- When a computer person is asked to fix a machine | www.tetrica.com /\ the first thing they will do is download updates | design, science / \ for all of the programs that you have installed. | philosophy, art/____\ Paul Wilkins, 32a Euston Street, Christchurch, New Zealand, (03)942-3097
