[TYPO3] How to execute local applications from Typo3

[Peter Klein]

Hi Brian. Try creating a small batch file which starts the executable, then 
place the batchfile inside an accessable path of your webserver. That way 
you don't have to worry about the path.

-- 
Peter Klein/Umloud Untd

"Brian Bendtsen" <brb at mentor-it.dk> skrev i en meddelelse 
news:mailman.1.1138802936.14276.typo3-english at lists.netfielders.de...
> Ries van Twisk wrote:
>> Try this:
>>
>> file:\\\\c:\programs\...\outlook.exe
>>
>> I am not a windows user but I think I have seen it once....
>>
>> Ries
>>
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Brian Bendtsen wrote:
>>>
>>>> No problem, but for fun I just tried what you suggested and I cant get
>>>> it to work, how would you type the link to an *.exe file?
>>>>
>>>> I tried file://c:\programs\...\outlook.exe but Typo3 puts
>>>> http://www.domain.com/ in front of the link so that will not work.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Heh, interesting...
>>>
>>> By the way, there is (were?) a nice thing called Outlook web access. You
>>> may want to use that as well.
>>>
>>> Dmitry.
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>>
>>
> It funny, I have had users complaining about Typo3 changing the links and 
> I didnt know what they were talking about, but now I do.
>
> It seems Typo3 is very incosistent when it comes to links. I have tried 
> typing in the link you wrote, but when I save it, Typo3 changes the link. 
> Sometimes it puts http:// in front of it and sometimes it changes \ to /. 
> Its very frustrating.
>
> /Brian Bendtsen