Open PDF, TXT and DOC documents in native application, not browser from CD

I agree with RedKelvin, no solution here.
As you said it depends on the borwser settings and you don't have a web server to set "Content-Disposition: attachment" in the http header.

Thanks for the feedback.  I came across this as well and realized that it doesn't apply without a web server.  Hopefully someone can come up with a creative solution!

hi there

i think this maybe of help but these changes are to be made by the user

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q162059/

and what i believe is that if the mime settings can be manipulated or rather handled u can find a workaround

this is a grab from a microsoft webcast

One other thing: when you get into manipulating or always forcing prompts, there are a couple of settings in the shell that will affect you. Specifically, the location of them in Windows 2000 is in Windows Explorer: select Tools, Folder Options, File Types. Then, you want to get to the Registered file types.

In Windows 2000, there will be an Advanced button. You pick the MIME type. There are a couple settings which play into this quite heavily. They are Confirm open after download and Browse in same window.

I will take the example of a Word document. If you have a Word document set up with Browse in same window checked, Internet Explorer will display it inline. If you have it cleared, Internet Explorer will always open up Word, or open up the owning application.

Similarly, with Confirm open after download, if you have that box checked, Internet Explorer will always prompt you with an Open/Save dialog box. If you specify that you want a Content-Disposition of attachment, you will get two of them.

The other thing is that, in certain cases, there can be a conflict between returning a behavior via the Content-Disposition header and the setting used in Browse in same window. When I was testing this, the Content-Disposition attachment will override Browse in same window, but the inverse is not true; Content-Disposition inline will not override an cleared Browse in same window box in the file-type association.

hope this will make u do some coding and solve ur issue

bhanu

hi

i forgot to give u the webcase link discussing mime handling and other features

http://support.microsoft.com/servicedesks/webcasts/en/wc011101/wct011101.asp

there are presentations about mime handling used in the webcase and a full audio of it

the link page is

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=325241

bhanu

Unfortunately, any changes that would be required of the user would not be appropriate.  Many of the people who will receive this CD are not very computer-literate and I cannot give them a list, not even a short one, of required changes.  It needs to be as simple as possible for them.  It will be viewed on many diverse systems, including Macs.   99% of the files are PDF.  I thought an HTML table of contents with links would be the best solution but if you have any other ideas, I am open.

Thanks,
Louis

Since this is apparently not possible I ended up having to settle with the documents opening within a browser window but it will stop accomplish the task.

I would like to change direction on this question: Can an HTML page be designed to run on a CD (no web server) that will have the ability to search document listings based on key words?

Definately, just use the Javascript filesystem object,

Here are some links that will help
http://www.codeproject.com/jscript/search_in_files.asp
http://www.irt.org/xref/FileSystem.htm

The first link should almost be a complete solution for you

Good luck

RedK

Are you saying that this should work as long as the user's browser supports ActiveX (which should be standard) regardless of computer or browser version?  Is JavaScript the best/only way to go or can something similar be done with VBScript?

Thanks,
Louis