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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 13:40:20 CST
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- From: lopresti robert <lopresti@henson.cc.wwu.edu>
- Subject: Re: Getting from CD drive prompt to menus
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- ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
- Eileen Flick wants to know how to get NTDB to go back to the menu screen
- on a CD-rom work station. I had to call the good people at Commerce to
- find out, but there is a way.
-
- The trick, as I understand it, is that the NTDB basic menu gives you
- a DOS prompt and once the patron has a DOS prompt you can't get him/her back
- to your menu screen. SO on your menu create an option for each NTDB
- possibility (i.e. NTDB with Browse, NTDB with ROmware, FTI with Browse...).
- Then create a batch file like this for each one:
-
- (assuming your hard drive is c: and NTDB is running in drive d:)
-
- batchfile should read:
-
- d:
- call 1
- c:
- cd..
- m
-
- (assuming you want to get back to a main directory and that m.bat
- will get you to your main menu screen.
-
- "call 1" will fire up item 1 on the NTDB menu, namely NTDB-Browse. "call 2"
- would fire up NTDB - Romware, etc.
-
- What you are doing, If I am not making myself clear, is forcing the patron
- to decide on which NTDB option they want at your main menu and then
- having your batchfile go to the NTDB disc and making that selection
- for them.
-
- If it doesn't work, try calling the Dept of Commerce.
-
- And my standard offer: I have most government CD-ROMs running on a PC
- with a Pioneer 6-changer. I have all the batchfiles, menus, and printable
- guides to using the programs on a floppy disc, and I'll send a copy to
- anyone who sends me a stamped self-addressed envelope and a three-inch
- disc (NOT 5 inch). Libraries are welcome to steal/modify anything on the
- disc for their own use. Send your disc to the address below, and ask for
- Docbase.
-
- NO ONE'S OPINIONS BUT MINE............................
- Rob Lopresti "As lives as in works of art,
- Western Wash U. there are few masterpieces."
- Bellingham, WA -Michael Novak
- 98225-9103 lopresti@henson.cc.wwu.edu
-