unusual html need

Hello. I frequently send web pages to someone in a ZIP archive. When
he unzips it, he has trouble finding the html file and opening it to
display the web page.

I use a Mac, he uses a windows box. I don't exactly know what happens
over there because I have never used a windows box. I understand that
his browser uses winace to unzip the archive and I reckon the result is
a file on his desktop.

What I want to do is put the html file in my directory and add the URL
to an email, then have him click on the URL and have the web page
display the contents of the unzipped archive that resides on his
desktop.

The graphics files would be named, for example...
fastener001.jpg
fastener002.jpg
fastener003.jpg

I can put the background graphic in my directory with the html file,
but how do I display the other graphics files, using my file in my
directory, on his machine when the files are over there? What is the
form of...

<center>
<img src="fastener001.jpg"><br><br>
<img src="fastener002.jpg"><br><br>
<img src="fastener003.jpg"><br><br>
</center>

....when the graphics are located on the other machine instead of in my
directory?

I hope someone can help me with this and I will appreciate it very much.

Thanks.

Can't be done?


In article <260720042034143674%misanthrope (AT) nepoediw (DOT) com>, misanthrope
<misanthrope (AT) nepoediw (DOT) com> wrote:

Hello. I frequently send web pages to someone in a ZIP archive. When
he unzips it, he has trouble finding the html file and opening it to
display the web page.

I use a Mac, he uses a windows box. I don't exactly know what happens
over there because I have never used a windows box. I understand that
his browser uses winace to unzip the archive and I reckon the result is
a file on his desktop.

What I want to do is put the html file in my directory and add the URL
to an email, then have him click on the URL and have the web page
display the contents of the unzipped archive that resides on his
desktop.

The graphics files would be named, for example...
fastener001.jpg
fastener002.jpg
fastener003.jpg

I can put the background graphic in my directory with the html file,
but how do I display the other graphics files, using my file in my
directory, on his machine when the files are over there? What is the
form of...

center
img src="fastener001.jpg"><br><br
img src="fastener002.jpg"><br><br
img src="fastener003.jpg"><br><br
/center

...when the graphics are located on the other machine instead of in my
directory?

I hope someone can help me with this and I will appreciate it very much.

Thanks.

I feel like I'm talking to myself. Not even an echo here, anyone?


In article <270720041702296116%misanthrope (AT) nepoediw (DOT) com>, misanthrope
<misanthrope (AT) nepoediw (DOT) com> wrote:

Can't be done?


In article <260720042034143674%misanthrope (AT) nepoediw (DOT) com>, misanthrope
misanthrope (AT) nepoediw (DOT) com> wrote:

Hello. I frequently send web pages to someone in a ZIP archive. When
he unzips it, he has trouble finding the html file and opening it to
display the web page.

I use a Mac, he uses a windows box. I don't exactly know what happens
over there because I have never used a windows box. I understand that
his browser uses winace to unzip the archive and I reckon the result is
a file on his desktop.

What I want to do is put the html file in my directory and add the URL
to an email, then have him click on the URL and have the web page
display the contents of the unzipped archive that resides on his
desktop.

The graphics files would be named, for example...
fastener001.jpg
fastener002.jpg
fastener003.jpg

I can put the background graphic in my directory with the html file,
but how do I display the other graphics files, using my file in my
directory, on his machine when the files are over there? What is the
form of...

center
img src="fastener001.jpg"><br><br
img src="fastener002.jpg"><br><br
img src="fastener003.jpg"><br><br
/center

...when the graphics are located on the other machine instead of in my
directory?

I hope someone can help me with this and I will appreciate it very much.

Thanks.

Everyone must be very busy.

Maybe I'll try again another time.

Best wishes.

I'm not sure I follow you.
Do yo need a webserver to host the images on your desktop?

"misanthrope" <misanthrope (AT) nepoediw (DOT) com> wrote

Everyone must be very busy.

Maybe I'll try again another time.

Best wishes.

In article <l9GdnSCtdp6QKpTcRVn-oQ (AT) comcast (DOT) com>, Carol
<kgdg (AT) helkusa (DOT) com> wrote:

I'm not sure I follow you.
Do yo need a webserver to host the images on your desktop?

Thank you for taking the time to answer my post.

I want my friend, who has an unzipped folder full of graphics files on
his computer, to be able to access an html file in my ISP's directory
which in turn displays the graphics files already residing on his
computer. That way I can send him a zip file full of graphics he can
click on a URL in an email causing the associated html file to display
the graphics in his folder as a web page.

If the html file was in the folder along with the graphics, no problem,
I would use:

<img src="fastener001.jpg">

But that's not the case. I need to know something about the link in my
directory and html file that nakes the web page look for and find the
graphics on his computer. I imagine that would be something like:

<img src="aaa/bbb/fastener001.jpg">

where
aaa = something about his computer
and
bbb = something else about his computer

What are those things? Say the graphics files are in a folder on a
Windows desktop. What would the aaa and bbb be in that case?

I hope that clears things up a little.


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In article <260720042034143674%misanthrope (AT) nepoediw (DOT) com>, misanthrope
<misanthrope (AT) nepoediw (DOT) com> wrote:

Hello. I frequently send web pages to someone in a ZIP archive. When
he unzips it, he has trouble finding the html file and opening it to
display the web page.

I use a Mac, he uses a windows box. I don't exactly know what happens
over there because I have never used a windows box. I understand that
his browser uses winace to unzip the archive and I reckon the result is
a file on his desktop.

What I want to do is put the html file in my directory and add the URL
to an email, then have him click on the URL and have the web page
display the contents of the unzipped archive that resides on his
desktop.

The graphics files would be named, for example...
fastener001.jpg
fastener002.jpg
fastener003.jpg

I can put the background graphic in my directory with the html file,
but how do I display the other graphics files, using my file in my
directory, on his machine when the files are over there? What is the
form of...

center
img src="fastener001.jpg"><br><br
img src="fastener002.jpg"><br><br
img src="fastener003.jpg"><br><br
/center

...when the graphics are located on the other machine instead of in my
directory?

I hope someone can help me with this and I will appreciate it very much.

Thanks.

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:59:39 -0700, misanthrope
<misanthrope (AT) nepoediw (DOT) com> wrote:

If the html file was in the folder along with the graphics, no problem,
I would use:

img src="fastener001.jpg"

But that's not the case. I need to know something about the link in my
directory and html file that nakes the web page look for and find the
graphics on his computer. I imagine that would be something like:

img src="aaa/bbb/fastener001.jpg"

where
aaa = something about his computer
and
bbb = something else about his computer

What are those things? Say the graphics files are in a folder on a
Windows desktop. What would the aaa and bbb be in that case?

If the folder on the Windows desktop was called 2, then

<img src="file://C:/Windows/Desktop/2/fastener001.jpg">




Previously on alt.discuss.html

"I use a Mac, he uses a windows box. I don't exactly
know what happens over there because I have never
used a windows box. I understand that his browser
uses winace to unzip the archive and I reckon the
result is a file on his desktop."

I would expect the result to be a file in the WinAce directory, which
I would expect to be a sub-directory of C:/Program Files/.

Anyway, have hime right-click on "My Computer" and choose "Find" from
the menu that appears. In the box labeled "Named:", have him type
fastener001.jpg or the name of the html file you sent him.

The Find program will tell him which folder the file is in.

--
Arthur Buse.

Arthur:

Okay, I will give this a try.

Looks exactly like what I was after.

Thank you so much.

I will report back in a day or two.

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In article <rb7lg09g7t3btvkqiqv6m5orve4p3n09mv (AT) 4ax (DOT) com>, Arthur Buse
<me (AT) privacy (DOT) net> wrote:

If the folder on the Windows desktop was called 2, then

img src="file://C:/Windows/Desktop/2/fastener001.jpg"

I would expect the result to be a file in the WinAce directory, which
I would expect to be a sub-directory of C:/Program Files/.

Anyway, have hime right-click on "My Computer" and choose "Find" from
the menu that appears. In the box labeled "Named:", have him type
fastener001.jpg or the name of the html file you sent him.

The Find program will tell him which folder the file is in.

That will work for your friend, but for no one else in the world.



"misanthrope" <misanthrope (AT) nepoediw (DOT) com> wrote

Arthur:

Okay, I will give this a try.

Looks exactly like what I was after.

Thank you so much.

I will report back in a day or two.

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In article <rb7lg09g7t3btvkqiqv6m5orve4p3n09mv (AT) 4ax (DOT) com>, Arthur Buse
me (AT) privacy (DOT) net> wrote:

If the folder on the Windows desktop was called 2, then

img src="file://C:/Windows/Desktop/2/fastener001.jpg"

I would expect the result to be a file in the WinAce directory, which
I would expect to be a sub-directory of C:/Program Files/.

Anyway, have hime right-click on "My Computer" and choose "Find" from
the menu that appears. In the box labeled "Named:", have him type
fastener001.jpg or the name of the html file you sent him.

The Find program will tell him which folder the file is in.