Copying files

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David French

I have a small intranet web site I'm constructing for my job as a computer
systems trainer.
The students need to have some files on their computer to use during my
classes.
I have tried to create a BAT file to do what I want with some success.
I want the files to go to a created folder named after the class (Excel1,
Excel2, Word1, Word2 etc.).
Some users will have My Documents in the default location and some will have
it moved to a network drive.
My problem is getting it to work for all these scenarios without creating
NUMEROUS .BAT files.

Anyone have any good ideas?

Dave French
 
How about just linking to them? A browser downloads files. For example, HTML
documents are files on the server that the browser downloads and then
displays. Images are also downloaded. In fact, everything in a browser
window is downloaded.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
What You Seek Is What You Get.
 
I guess maybe i'm not following your thought here.
How is that going to allow them to get them onto the computer they are
using?

Dave
 
If they see it in their browser, it is already ON the computer they are
using. If they want to save it to a location other than Temporary Internet
Files, they can use the File|Save As... menu item in their browser.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
What You Seek Is What You Get.
 
OK...
So maybe I should have links to the files themselves instead of to a .BAT or
..EXE that will copy them to their computer?
Is that what you're suggesting?
Making sure that they only have Read access to that folder naturally!

Dave
 
Check out the first sentence of my original reply:

As to Read Only access, have you ever been able to write to a file on a
remote server via your browser? The browser downloads a COPY of the file. It
can't re-upload it.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
What You Seek Is What You Get.
 
I think both of your answers have merit.
I have the pages that I have created on my own. I also have sets of pages
that were created elsewhere and when MY theme is applied the text gets
changed and is very difficult to read.
I could take those folders and put them in a separate web so I can still
create new pages and change the theme on the main site without having to
worry about these pages being affected.
For now going to each page and choosing No Theme is OK...but if this grows
the way I think it will I don't want to have to go into 50 - 100 pages and
have to choose No Theme and save each one.
If anyone gets any other good brainstorms let me know.

Dave French
 
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