RE: [WinMac] sending a Windows shortcut file

From: Warwick Tate (Warwick.Tate@cwo.com.au)
Date: Fri Mar 16 2001 - 06:10:00 PST

You can't insert it using the attachment buttons, but you can drag and drop
it into the message. I use it to send shortcuts to server volumes around. As
others have said, unless the file is in the same place on all machines, or
references a globally available location, it is not a good idea to do this.

Warwick Tate
IT Solution Architect
DSS Architecture Consulting Group
Compaq Computer Australia Pty Ltd
Phone +61 (2) 9342 8325
Fax +61 (2) 9342 7511
Mobile: 04111 46677
E-Mail: Warwick.Tate@compaq.com

> ----------
> From: tomroth@wfubmc.edu
> Reply To: winmac@iffy.com
> Sent: Friday, 16 March 2001 4:59 AM
> To: WinMac
> Subject: [WinMac] sending a Windows shortcut file
>
>
> This might be a bit off topic but I was wanting to send a Windows
> shortcut via email to certain folks here in the office but everytime I
> try it sends the original instead of the shortcut. Then I tried sending
> it from my Macintosh and that corrupted the shortcut file. Well, it
> might have been the email that corrupted it, not the Mac.
>
> What I'm wanting to do is to have all of our WinNT users create an
> Emergency Repair Disk with the /s option and I thought the easiest way
> to do that would be to make a shortcut for them since they all already
> have the rdisk.exe program on their computers.
>
> Then I was trying to figure out a way to create html code that would
> allow them to click on a link that would then activate rdisk.exe with
> the /s option. Instead it just tried to download the file.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> --
> Tom Roth * tomroth@wfubmc.edu * tel 336.716.4493
> Wake Forest University School of Medicine
> Dept of Biomedical Communications
> Medical Center Blvd * Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1011
> http://www.wfubmc.edu/biomed/
>
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