>Kevin Miller wrote:
> >
>---snip---
> >
> > My other suggestion is that you consider building a standalone
>with a single
> > stack that itself loads some stack in a URL somewhere instead. Users can
> > download that and run it, and it will then open the door to any content you
> > wish to provide (the stack it loads from the URL can itself load
>anything it
> > likes, present a MC based "home page" or whatever). No configuration
> > required.
>
>That's how I transfer stacks to my current client group - I sent each
>interested party (in a
>couple of different states) a small .sit file that contained a stack
>downloader. When they open
>it, it refreshes its "available files" list by retrieving a directory
>list from a specific
>directory in my web space (and then removing references to any other
>directories prior to
>displaying). Works like a charm; some of my people are quite
>"technologically challenged" and
>don't know how to manage email attachments, and certainly don't know
>what a MIME type is or
>does. So the little downloader stack enables them to bypass all the
>"complexities" and simply
>get what they want.
>
>If anyone is interested, I'll make it available as a simple example
>(after I alter it slightly
>to "protect the innocent").
>
>Phil
Sounds a neat approach which I'd be very interested in for other
projects. However, I definitely couldn't use it with the current
project!
Best regards
Peter
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