RE: WWW and CD-ROM

Borre Ludvigsen (borrel@hiof.no)
Wed, 12 Oct 1994 21:59:39 +0000 (GMT)

file:// and "localhost" are obviously workable for using web-clients as
from-ends for CD-ROM archives, but what about scripts for searches and the
like? I'm told that running a server and client on the same machine just
won't move. Besides, it defeats multiplatform portability of the CD. Any
ideas on how to implement multiplatform scripting in a serverless local
environment? (We're doing a fairly extensive multimedia archive of
industrial archaeology which we want to distribute both on net and
CD-ROM, making the HTML format obvious, but we lose a lot of
functionality when we lose the server.)

- Barre Ludvigsen
http://www.ludvigsen.hiof.no/

On Wed, 12 Oct 1994, Eamonn Sullivan wrote:

>
> >Could somebody answer the following questions:
> >Is it possible to use WWW in combination with CD-ROM, using anchors
> >pointing to documents an a CD-ROM?
>
> yes. You can test this yourself by saving any old HTML page to disk and then
> opening it locally (quickest way on Windows is to drag the file from file
> manager and drop it on top of Mosaic). You'll get a URL like:
> file:///C|/TEMP/PAGE.HTM
>
> ----------
> From: www-talk
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: WWW and CD-ROM
> Date: Wednesday, October 12, 1994 10:35AM
>
> Could somebody answer the following questions:
> Is it possible to use WWW in combination with CD-ROM, using anchors
> pointing to documents an a CD-ROM?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Marc van der Noordaa
>
>