Please could someone shed some light on this:
I received a CD-rom from the USA this morning, which contains a load of directories, in each of which is a selection of HTML files and related .JPG and .GIF images. There is also a front page .HTML file in the root directory and that file has links to all of the other pages scattered about the CD.
I can start up Opera/Mozilla and open the front page without any difficulty, but all links are unreachable. When I move the cursor over a link, I find that its address is shown as (for example) 'file:///fred/somepage.htm', whereas I would have expected it to be '/mnt/cdrom/fred/somepage.htm'....
On the CD jewel case it says that the CD is for Doze and that 'other browsers may not work properly'.
Is there a solution to this? It seems as though all the files are separately accessible - I can open any .HTM file manually in Opera, but the links don't work.
Thanks for any help!
Gerald.
On 2003-09-03 13:21:12 +0100 Edenyard mail@edenyard.co.uk wrote:
'file:///fred/somepage.htm', whereas I would have expected it to be '/mnt/cdrom/fred/somepage.htm'....
Stupid people using absolute links on a CD. It only works on Windows if the files are on the root of a drive, so not if you copy them to a directory on a hard disk. I don't know whether you have space to make a copy and fix the links with a search and replace, or maybe wget can fix the links. The simplest route to reading it may be to install a small webserver (boa? thttpd?) and make DocumentRoot /mnt/cdrom
Hope that helps,
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Edenyard -
MJ Ray