CD Rom question! How do I get a CDR to automatically open a document?

Let's say this document is called "Document.doc", and I want to write it to a CDR.

I thinks to myself, ah I'll add an autorun.inf and have only the line :

OPEN=Document.doc

But that didn't work...

would you have to open wordpad instead? like
open=c:\windows\wordpad.exe Document.doc

only guessing. have no idea how this works.

what operating system are you testing on? you can't do this on a mac, as far as I know

Philip's right. It only runs programs, doesn't understand documents. Unless you put a helper program on there like WinOpen or something. But for what it can do unaided, just google "autorun.inf syntax" (only windows, that's what I think too)

Also works on usb sticks and external hard drives, btw. A slight amount of fun can be had with this if autorun isn't disabled.

Right, trying...

open=winopen \document.doc

Everyone should disable autorun IMO.

Well, if it's disabled, that means the recipient knows enough to be able to run/open the file themselves...

Well, that's interesting: The "label" I added now appears in Windows Explorer.

Still doesn't autorun it. If I doubleclick the icon, it asks for a programme to run, then doesn't open anything...

so near....

Ah, yes, that winOpen thing is a separate program you have to put on the cdr. I don't know if it's freeware or not, though.

ah right, will have to try it later.