Re: starting exe files

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From: Marcel van den Dungen
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 00:00

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Steve Schafer (TeamB) wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:55:55 +0200, Marcel van den Dungen
> <info@c-content.nl> wrote:
>
> >i am writing an applet running on ms windows that should start up local
> >executables (exe files)
> >can anyone please tell me how to do this?
>
> To allow an applet to start an EXE on the host machine is absolutely
> contrary to the whole idea of applets. Applets run in a "sandbox";
> they are isolated from the machine on which they run.
>
> -Steve

The meaning is that the applet is only installed locally and runs my own
programs, it is used for a demo menu. Is there no way to go around the
security issue, since the applet is not started from a server?I tried the
following:
Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command)
This starts up the command when the applet is started in JBuilder, but I
can't get it to work in Netscape.
Can anyone please help me overcome this problem?

Thanks in advance
Greetings
Casper

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