[13013] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
Re: Serving CD-ROM Products Over the Web
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Lester)
Thu Jul 8 20:01:41 1999
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 13:55:20 -0600
From: Dan Lester <dan@84.com>
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At 01:41 PM 7/6/99 -0600, Lisanne Hamilton wrote:
> >We are planning to upgrade our Meridian-Data CDROM server in mid-August.
> >Right now, it has uses CDNet (version 2.0), which is a graphical menu, to
> >select the CDROMs. Meridian-Data now incorporates something called
> >SlingShot (in CDNet version 4.0) which allows you to activate CDROMs from
> >your web browser.
>
> >See http://www.meridian-data.com/datasheets/ds_nt4.htm and
> >http://www.meridian-data.com/datasheets/nt4faq.htm for more details. You
> >might try giving them a call and see if that works for you.
>
> >Dean Riley
The original question, still quoted below, was about serving the CDROMs
over the web. After reading each of the above cited pages twice, it
appears that these are products that will share the CDROMs under NT4
shares, but will not serve the CDROMs to web browsers over the internet.
dan
> >At 03:26 PM 01-07-99 -0600, you wrote:
> >>From: Gerard Egan <g.egan@uws.edu.au>
> >>Subject: serving CD_ROM products over the Web
> >>We are currently using SABER menu (DOS based) to serve up our CD-ROM
> >>based products over an internal network.
> >>
> >>We would like to move to a web-based product to serve these CD-ROM
> >>products. While we have looked at W3Launch, does anyone have other
> >>suggestions?
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