simple question but causing headaches?

[Henrootje]

Probably a simple question to most of you but I have been googling,
searching, trying, reading, swearing and cursing for two hours
now..............

Can I (and if yes, how) open a folder on my computer from a html?

I have a CD that has a folder /texts.
I would like a link to that folder so that it opens in Explorer so that
I can copy files from it.
I can get it to open in a kind of webpage but then I can only click one
file at a time. If I were to be able to open that folder with explorer
I would be able to select multipleof those documents and copy them to
my harddrive.

It sounds so simple but how do I do this?????

[ironcorona]

Henrootje wrote:

Probably a simple question to most of you but I have been googling,
searching, trying, reading, swearing and cursing for two hours
now..............

Can I (and if yes, how) open a folder on my computer from a html?

I have a CD that has a folder /texts.
I would like a link to that folder so that it opens in Explorer so that
I can copy files from it.
I can get it to open in a kind of webpage but then I can only click one
file at a time. If I were to be able to open that folder with explorer
I would be able to select multipleof those documents and copy them to
my harddrive.

file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/user/my%20documents/ [change as
appropriate]

Remember to use the %20 instead of space. Microsoft lets their file
names have spaces in them but no one else does. Quite annoying.

--
Brian O'Connor (ironcorona)

[ironcorona]

ironcorona wrote:

Henrootje wrote:

Probably a simple question to most of you but I have been googling,
searching, trying, reading, swearing and cursing for two hours
now..............

Can I (and if yes, how) open a folder on my computer from a html?

I have a CD that has a folder /texts.
I would like a link to that folder so that it opens in Explorer so that
I can copy files from it.
I can get it to open in a kind of webpage but then I can only click one
file at a time. If I were to be able to open that folder with explorer
I would be able to select multipleof those documents and copy them to
my harddrive.

file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/user/my%20documents/ [change as
appropriate]

And I should probably mention that you should just treat it like any
other URI so to create a link to it

<a href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/user/my%20documents/">My
Documents</a>

--
Brian O'Connor (ironcorona)

[Henrootje]

That works like a charm. In Internet Explorer.........
Firefox opens it as a kind of HTML page...

Nop prob, the receivers will all be using Internet Explorer and I'll
put a warning in the text that they should open it with Iexplore

[ironcorona]

Henrootje wrote:

That works like a charm. In Internet Explorer.........
Firefox opens it as a kind of HTML page...

Yes. Internet Explorer and the Windows Explorer are very integrated (if
not the same thing) so IE has a way to graphically mark up information
in your own computer and give it all that file manager functionality. I
*think* Konqueror can do the same thing.

There's no reason that FF couldn't do it too except for the fact that
it's a browser. not a file manager.

ps. you should quote the relevant text when replying to a posting
http://www.safalra.com/special/googlegroupsreply/

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Brian O'Connor (ironcorona)

[Henrootje]

Thnx Brian