"Roland Hall" wrote in message news:ug******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl...
: "aa" wrote in message news:OU******** *****@tk2msftng p13.phx.gbl...
: Thought this question might be out of this NG's scope, there are always
: knowledgable people who might hava an answer.
:
: If it's not ASP related, then yes, it is out of scope.
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As I read my post, I knew which was my responses and which were your
responses but others may not. The reason I just realized is you posted in
HTML, and not plain text and my NG reader was not set to preclude each line
with :, as it does in plain text. That reason is my personal preference
because my NG reader is also my email client and I chose not to include that
symbol for email messages.
I have included my previous post with the appropriate markings.
"aa" wrote in message news:OU******** *****@tk2msftng p13.phx.gbl...
: Thought this question might be out of this NG's scope, there are always
: knowledgable people who might hava an answer.
If it's not ASP related, then yes, it is out of scope.
: A hyperlink to a shortcut to a file returnes an empty screen, and the
source
: code behind this empty screen is
: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
: <HTML><HEAD>
: <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html;
: charset=windows-1252"></HEAD>
: <BODY></BODY></HTML>
A hyperlink to a shortcut where? Server? Client?
A shortcut on the server will point to a physical path so the client cannot
use it.
A shortcut on the client cannot be pointed to since ASP runs on the server.
The code you see is default code provided by your browser to render the page
with nothing visual, as it has done. It returned all it could, which is
nothing useful.
: Is this supposed to be like this?
Yes.
: How does a shortcut work?
A shortcut is a .lnk file to a physical path and file.
: Is it possible to use shortcuts in this way?
Not that I am aware of. This is not ASP related. You should post your
question in an Windows OS NG or some other relative NG, perhaps HTML
related.
: The reason fo me wanting this is I have a code which builds a link to a
: product's Technical Data Sheet basing on product's code.
: However sometimes several products share a sigle TDS file, so the ides was
: to use shortcut, rather then having same info stored under different
: filenames
In ASP, if you have a reference that points to a path, you can store it in a
variable for short-term or cookie for mid-term or database/file for long
term. You can then retrieve it and use it as you wish. If you need it
within all pages, then <!-- #include file="myshortcu ts.asp"--> on each page
will let you do that. Or you could assign it to a session variable, or a
cookie, etc.
Evertjan pointed you to an HTML NG, which you responded was a desire re:
your OP, as you slammed him for doing so. However, given the limitations of
your OP, there was not much else to respond with.
He also requested you not top post, which really doesn't make a flying Fred
to me, but it does make it easier for others to follow a thread if relative
text from a previous post is included and responded to as it would be in a
verbal conversation. He is quite helpful, extremely intelligent and
provides valuable information on numerous NGs. Shooting the cook is not a
good way to get fed. I understand and sympathize you are frustrated. We
all experience that from time to time but you need to reread your posts.
You made a request.
He responded pointing you to a different NG.
You slammed him for not having an answer and stated your original post, at a
minimum, was to get pointed to an appropriate NG.
My response to that is, "HELLO?!" (O:=
You also responded with he could have ignored your post. You're right but
be careful what you ask for. However, you could have ignored his response.
Jes' sayin'...
HTH... and if not, please provide more detail if you feel this is ASP
related and if not, please try posting to an appropriate NG.
One more thing...
Please set your NG reader to only post with plain text messages. We get
prompted when we reply if it's ok to post in HTML, which we do not want to
do. We then have to modify the response to plain text. This will probably
limit helpful responses more than top posting.
--
Roland Hall
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