edit hosts file

[ober0330]

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?

[Acidic]

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.

[ober0330]

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.

[BrianS]

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