USB drive drive letter as a variable |
USB drive drive letter as a variable |
goldenyears |
Mar 26 2014, 07:29 PM
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Background: I have some html pages I've created on a USB portable drive interchangeable between two different computers. The page contains links to files and folders on the USB drive. One of the computers has multiple internal drives and the other just one, so the USB drive gets assigned different drive letters. Because the USB drive gets assigned different letters on each machine I have to use the SUBST statement in a DOS batch file at startup. But sometimes I plug the USB drive into someone else's computer and the drive letters are incorrect for their machine. Here's some examples of the links in the HTML page:
<A HREF="file:///G:/HOUSEHOLD/">Household</A> <A HREF="file:///G:/HOUSEHOLD/Computer/DellUserGuide.pdf">Monitor</A> Question: is there a way for the hrml page to make the drive letter a variable which is assigned depending on which computer it is attached to? If not automatically, then by asking for the drive letter to use on the page itself? |
Christian J |
Mar 26 2014, 08:29 PM
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Can't you just use relative URLs?
HTML can't use variables. You might do it with e.g. PHP (not sure), but then you also need a local server. |
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