[duxuser] Wow! What A Really Neat Demo CD-ROM
- From: Daniel Vejil <dvejil@xxxxxxxx>
- To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2002 22:18:18 -0600
To all who read this:
I have been carrying the Duxbury Demo disk around with me, practically ever
since I got it from the Duxbury booth at the ACB convention, in July. I
took it to work with me, where I have a DOS only machine and DBT for DOS.
Since I could not install DBT for Windows on this machine, I just took a
look at the documentation and other types of HTML formatted material that
are on this disk. DBT for DOS did an outstanding job in converting the
HTML files into something I could save as ASCII, which allowed me to import
and read them in WP5.1.
I say all of this just to let the reader understand that there was no one
more surprised than I was when I came home this evening and inserted the
Demo CD into a more up-to-date machine, running Windows 98 as its OS. I
expected that an automatic install program of some sort would run, and that
since DBT is Duxbury's premiere product, and besides that, it is a Windows
application, the setup operation would deal strictly with the installation
of DBT, with some kind of aside to go into DOS, change into the appropriate
directory, and run an installation program from within that directory.
However, what I discovered, was that autorun.exe calls forth a file which
is located in the root directory of the Demo CD, and is called index.htm.
This resulted in the activation of Internet Explorer, which allowed me to
read the Duxbury Demo's opening screen. I found out that I could choose to
install either DBT or Megadots. If I just wanted to read the
documentation, in order to find out how either one of the products worked,
and what limitations each Demo program had, I was free to do this too,
without having to install anything!
I have never seen any kind of installation disk, so thoughtfully put
together. Usually in installations where more than one program can be
installed, or parts of an application can be left out if the person
performing the installation wishes to do so, there is either a check box
list to go through, or a tree-view list to cursor through, selecting and
un-selecting items as necessary. Congratulations on a fantastic and novel
way of performing a multi-program installation.
I must also apologize for making this post such a long one, but I tend to
get excited when I find out something that is so friendly to the blind, and
in this case, I'm sure with all of those ribbon and logo pictures, it looks
great too.
So what do I want to know? Can I copy the autorun.exe to use myself? I'm
not planning on giving any CD's away, selling any kind of product, or
anything like that. It is just that if the index.htm file can be modified,
anything is possible, where any kind of CD is made that includes multiple
files, and having an index of those files at ones fingertips without having
to resort to Windows Explorer would be really fabulous! Who knows, I just
might upgrade my work machine so that instead of running DOS as its OS, it
might run something a bit more modern, that would allow me to work and
play--such as Windows!
I hope that this message has entertained some of you, given some of you a
bit of food for thought, and let the rest of you have a refreshing slumber!
Daniel Vejil
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