Need help to execute/launch a program via web page

Carl Uman

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We have an intranet at work that I'm moving a VB app to. The VB app allows viewing of images by launching the indexing software with needed info to pull up the images. If I paste the following in the address bar in IE it will launch but if I paste that info an "a href" then the \ are changed to / and it says it can't find it.

\\REX\PAPERCLIP32\PAPERCLIP32 SERVER\PCLIPWIN.EXE /f "Zoning Records|1552"

The indexing software is not on the same server as the web site. It is just a folder share that the users have read/exec access to.

The intranet is written in ColdFusion and uses some javascript. Any ideas?

Thanks much
Carl

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Carl Uman

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Seems like a basic thing to do? Anyone point me in the right direction? If not I'll go a hunt'n tomorrow :)

Thanks