[ale] OT: Creating a URI on Windoze

[adrin at bellsouth.net (H. A. Story)]

Christopher Fowler wrote:

>Is it possible to create a non-standard URI in windows?
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>I want to display a link on a web page that will fire up a PCAnywhere
>client to a remote machine.  I guess I also need to somehow be able to
>tell PCA what remote to connect to.
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It can be done.  Sometimes IE will block running programs though.  A 
better if you are wanting to give support a better option would be 
PCAnywhere host only or VNC service with a client added.  If don't 
correctly you don't leave the user open for attacks later.  Just yourself :)