I need to write an autorun file(s) for Windows and Linux CDROMs.

When a game CDROM gets put into a Linux machine, Windows senses it and executes an intended executable. I need to write whatever it takes to make the same thing happen for an application that I wrote. I need to have it work on windows and on linux.

For windows, from my searches and tests, and views of game maker's cdroms, I take it that the files
* AUTOSTART.EXE * AUTORUN.INF * AUTOSTART.INI have to do with this, but I cannot find information dealing with it directly, and my current tests fail. Surely someone has gone this way before in Perl land.
Any perl scripts available?
Does someone know where "out there" the Windows documentation on creating the needed files (emphasis on "creating" ... there is plenty on "using")?

Same questions for Linux.

Thanks

In reply to Windows and Linux CDROM Autostart help by Anonymous Monk

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