HREF for executable file with parameter

[Martin Wulfe]

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Adrian -

Thanks for your message. I did have something of a problem sending
the last post, so i'm not at all surprised it came out gabbled.

And thanks for your suggestion, but I don't think it will work. Here's
why.

Every combination of potential users can be sent any combination of
messages. Repeat messages regarding the same record number to the
same recipient is also a possibility, and would be reasonable.

I'll describe the make-shift system I have put together. the .Net app
creates a file in a shared folder whose filename has the record number
appended to the end. This file is a vbsript that executes the exe
file with a unique record number, which also happens to be the number
at the end of the filename. In the email that recipient gets, the
HTML uses an HREF pointing to the vbscript file, based on the record I
want the recipient(s) to look at..

I'm not sure that makes any sense. But if you can think of an
all-HTML solution to this, I could avoid have an application that will
end up creating, sooner or later, more than 500 vbscript files.

It would also be elegant.

Martin

 

[Martin Wulfe]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:33:15 -0500, Martin Wulfe <[email protected]>
wrote:


[thought i'd start at the top, tired of scrolling down...]

Adrian -

Thanks for your message. I did have something of a problem sending
the last post, so i'm not at all surprised it came out gabbled.

And thanks for your suggestion, but I don't think it will work. Here's
why.

Every combination of potential users can be sent any combination of
messages. Repeat messages regarding the same record number to the
same recipient is also a possibility, and would be reasonable.

I'll describe the make-shift system I have put together. the .Net app
creates a file in a shared folder whose filename has the record number
appended to the end. This file is a vbsript that executes the exe
file with a unique record number, which also happens to be the number
at the end of the filename. In the email that recipient gets, the
HTML uses an HREF pointing to the vbscript file, based on the record I
want the recipient(s) to look at..

I'm not sure that makes any sense. But if you can think of an
all-HTML solution to this, I could avoid have an application that will
end up creating, sooner or later, more than 500 vbscript files.

It would also be elegant.

Tim, thanks for trying. Let me know if you come up with anything.

Martin

 

[rf]

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So trim out the bits you are *not* replying to. You have a Del button, don't
you?

Thanks for your message.

What message? Which of the bits you full quoted below is the message?

<snip>

 

[Bergamot]

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If people would learn how to properly trim posts you wouldn't have to
scroll so much.

http://www.anta.net/misc/nnq/nquote.shtml#Q3

 

[Blinky the Shark]

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Unfortunte decision. http://blinkynet.net/comp/toppost.html

 

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On 2009-01-23, Martin Wulfe wrote:
....

So I'm back to my original question: how can I construct an HTML
anchor to an executable file with a command-line argument?

You don't. You put the argument after the URL as in:

<a href="http://example.com/xxx.html?argument">

and have your program read the value of QUERY_STRING.