How to Deliver Files to a Specific Location on Your End User's Machines
Overview
BlueZone Web-to-Host supports the ability to deliver a single file or multiple files to a specific location on your End User's machines.
This feature can be used by the BlueZone Administrator to deliver virtually any type of file like, MSI packages, help files, fonts, web controls, etc., to a location that you specify on the End User's machine.
For example, you may have a favorite font file that you would like to deliver along with BlueZone. Another application is to deliver BlueZone compiled Help (.CHM) files to End Users that don't otherwise have access to the BlueZone HTML Help web site because they don't have Internet access.
How it's Done
This is accomplished by creating a CAB file that contains the desired file or files that you wish to download. Placing the CAB file in the BlueZone directory on the web server. Adding the name of the CAB file to the Distribution File. Then modifying the default.ini file to include the name of the CAB file.
Making a CAB file is fairly simple. All Windows 2000 and XP Professional operating systems are shipped with the makecab.exe utility from Microsoft.
Procedure
In this example, we are going to CAB the bluezone.chm file. To make this procedure work for you, substitute the file you want to download for bluezone.chm.
- Go to the DOS command prompt.
- Navigate to the directory where the file to be CAB'ed is located and type the following:
C:\My Files>makecab bluezone.chm bluezone.cab
- Copy the new CAB file into the BlueZone \cabs folder on the web server.
- Using Notepad, add the CAB file name (bluezone.cab) to the .dst file so that it will be downloaded to the End Users.
- Locate the default.ini file and using Notepad, add the following:
[bluezone.cab]
DestDir=C:\Program Files\Seagull\bluezone
The bluezone.cab file will be downloaded, automatically unpacked and written to the location that you specify in the DestDir= as shown above.
End of Procedure.
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