Howdy,

  What you have there is a standard URL for a Drive. I'll try to explain it
as best I can for you.

  file:///g|/dancempeg.mpg is what we are starting out with, I am going to
break it down in to
sections for better comprehension.

  file://
-------
  This tells the Web Browser that this is an actual File on the user's
machine, it does not tell where
the file is located, only that it is a local file, so it doesn't need to go
to the internet or anything like that.

  /g|/
-----
  This statement is what is forcing the CD-Rom Drive to be drive G:, since
we are working with
a web browser, for portability reasons, it uses a "pipe" character or |
instead of a colon :

  Colons CAN work in some web browsers (IE, Netscape) but | works in more.

  So, your Autorun file has the statement that is requiring the file to be
on drive G:, you can get around
this problem if you modify the autorun file to show the following:

  file://dancempeg.mpg

  Keep in mind that the file MUST be in the same directory as the autorun
file for this to work.
Otherwise, you would have to include any sub-directory as
file:///sub-dir/dancempeg.mpg

Hope this helps!

Frank Diacheysn (CrazyMan)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Olushola" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 10:15 PM
Subject: [PCSOFT] Can any explain the syntac of this HTML code?


> Hi,
> I was given the following code which would allow someone to play a video
> file which I burned on CD. I use an autorun program to bring up an HTM
page
> that asked the user to "click here to see the video".
>
> Ahref="file:///g|/dancempeg.mpg">Click to view Dance
>       Video</A>&nbsp
>
> This file:///g|/ looks strange and i've never seen this syntac before. Can
> anyone explain it?
>
> Unfortunately it requires the user's CD drive to be on G. This makes the
> portability of my CD practically nil. Does anyone know how to specify the
> instruction so that it reads the drive which contains the CD.
>
> Thanks
> Olushola Sowande
>
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