Re: [WinMac] sending a Windows shortcut file

From: Tom Roth (tomroth@wfubmc.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 15 2001 - 11:42:51 PST

> Lic. José Miguel León Franco wrote:
>
> You can insert an hyperlink to the actual file, but this file need to be in
> the same location in all machines. For example:
>
> <file:\\fileserver\winnt\rdisk.exe>
> if it is in the network or:
> <file:c:\winnt\rdsik.exe>
> if it is a local file
>
> It can work in Outlook message or in a html page.

What I tried was:

Click <a href="file:///c:\winnt\system32\rdisk.exe">here</a> to create
an Emergency Repair Disk. </font>

but it just tried to download the file instead of executing the file.
Also tried an embed tag but that failed too. BTW, this is with
Netscape, not Outlook or IE. 

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