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Name: Ken
Date: July 30, 2000 at 05:20:18 Pacific
Subject: Auto Start a CD on a Mac?
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I make CD-ROM'S in HTML. How do I get a CD to auto start on a Mac OS? What files do I need? Can someone send them to me and tell me where to put them on the CD so it will auto start on a Mac please? Hopefully on any Mac OS. Any help would be most appreciated.
Ken.


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Response Number 1
Name: vallen
Date: July 30, 2000 at 08:06:01 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

Use Toast 3.5 or later. (v.4 suggested = more options)
When writing a mac volume you have the otion of choosing a file to AutoStart.
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Response Number 2
Name: Matthias
Date: July 31, 2000 at 03:00:53 Pacific
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and, beside the cd, in your or your customers quicktime controlpannel, the autostart funktion should be marked.
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Response Number 3
Name: Martin
Date: August 2, 2000 at 12:43:30 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

I agree with both of the above. Use Toast
to make the partition autostart, and select
the file to autostart when the CD is put in
the drive.

This works well for us with Mac / PC
demo CD hybrids, although making the
PC version autostart calls for the creation
of an autorun.inf file.


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Response Number 4
Name: Jimmy
Date: December 20, 2000 at 10:50:28 Pacific
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I'm interested on the same topic. I need an .html file to be autorun upon loading of the CD.

What would be the autorun.inf command equivalent? I though it was "shellexecute=filename.html" but it does not appear to work. Any thoughts?


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Response Number 5
Name: Trey Cranson
Date: January 16, 2001 at 15:32:02 Pacific
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suppose you are developing on a PC and want to give Mac Users the same courtesy to have the CD Autostart, does anyone know what file or code can make this possible? Basically, what is it that Toast writes to the disk? Any Mac users, please respond. Thanks.


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Response Number 6
Name: John Benson
Date: February 6, 2001 at 13:22:40 Pacific
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toast is not availible for the PC,.. that is why PC users have such a problem, Adaptec (who makes toast), also makes a PC burning suite, but that software, well,.. it sucks.. and doesn't have any support for mac anything. I too also need to have an autorun for the Mac.. !help


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Response Number 7
Name: James P
Date: March 4, 2001 at 10:55:22 Pacific
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I've got Toast 4.0.1.1. PPC, but I can't find
the option to make an aplication autostart
upon putting in the CD. Does anyone
know where this is?


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Response Number 8
Name: Lai
Date: October 11, 2001 at 04:11:21 Pacific
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I have got Toast 5.0.1. First step: You have to burn a cd with your files and program(mac os or hybrid).And then you have to burn your cd a second time. But this time you click on the right button, you have to wait for an openig pop up menue. Choose Mac Volume and activate AutoStart.


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