[Xitami] Xitmami / cdrom / No network or TCPIP?

[Marc Doigny]

At 13:18 11/01/02, you wrote:
>In message <COEAJMCINDEAAHLGNCEMGEBACDAA.robert.bowen@mubimedia.com>, 
>"Robert Bo
>wen" writes:
> >I am trying to transfer an entire web site to cdrom.  [Some dynamic
> >content] But can it do it, having the web site, xitami server and perl,
> >all living on a cd, without tcpip?
>
>Then again I'm not even sure it is possible to install a web browser
>like IE or Netscape without TCP/IP installed.
>
>Ewen
>
>--
>Ewen McNeill, Technical Consultant, iMatix Corporation  www.imatix.com
You can make a cd rom that start window internet explorer automatically and 
loads an index page. (TCP/IP is not needed since only local files are accessed)
 From there on the users can navigate the CD like a normal internet site.
It will not be possible to execute programs, but IE has a FIND function.
There are also javascripts commands that let you select records in a file. 
Normally these commands are not used in an internet environment, since the 
whole file has to be downloaded anyway, but they function well for local 
browsing.

I regularly distribute CD-ROMS that way, and i never had complains that the 
files could not be read.
Of course the CD-ROM will only be accessible by windows PC's.

Simply make a "autorun.inf" file in the root of the CD with following content:

[autorun]
open=start index.htm

(assuming index.htm is also in the root of the CD)


Marc

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