edit hosts file

I want to edit the hosts file on our user's computers so that they can punch in a keyword in a browser to get to a web-based database intranet site.

Is there anything more than finding the file and appending a line to it?

heh, you did post here after all.
OK, what exactly do you want the patch to do app to do? append one line onto a text file?

or do you mean that once the app has been run, they can enter a keyword in their browser, and the URL changes to a web-based database?

This is quite tricky as you're editing IE. Maybe you could add a toolbar which makes a link go there. (I'm not sure how you'd do that though).

Excuse my rambling, I'm me.

following me around, eh? ;)

I just need to find the hosts file, open it, append a line, and close it. I can manage that part. I'm not going to create a toolbar, that's just overkill.

I was just asking more if there is something else that i'm not thinking about. And FYI, I'm going to be setting the shortcut name.

Just make sure you append the correct Hosts file and don't add an extension on it when you save it.