Configuring to use the Rover Display with Sound

Rover is the network status monitor.

When using a sound version of the Rover Display, a sound file will be sent to your Web browser every time a problem is added or deleted from the Rover Display. Any change to a problem's Remark also triggers a sound.

Before using one of the sound versions of the Rover Display, you must ensure that your workstation can handle the sound appropriately; failure to do so can eventually cause your disk to fill.

In general, you need to be using Netscape version 2.0 or later. Your Web browser needs to be able to play sounds and delete them immediately after playing them. The sound player should also quit or put itself into the background after it plays a sound.

Here are configuration instructions for Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 users:

1. Download WINCMD.EXE, and save it in the Netscape directory on your hard disk. This is a scripting language for Windows, similar in concept to DOS batch file processing. WINCMD.EXE is freeware from PC Magazine, a Ziff-Davis publication.
   

2. Download NAPLAYER.WCM, a WinCmd script which calls NAPLAYER for sounds and removes the sound file after playing it. Save it in the Netscape directory on your hard disk.

3. Configure Netscape so that whenever it needs to play an audio/basic file, it will call WINCMD.EXE with NAPLAYER.WCM as an argument. Do this by choosing Options/General Preferences/Helpers and setting the audio/basic mime-type to be NETSCAPEDIR\wincmd.exe naplayer.wcm, where NETSCAPEDIR is the path to your Netscape program directory.

4. If you are using Windows 3.1, use the PIF editor and set the "Window" property for _default.pif so that the shell command issued in naplayer.wcm does not spawn a full-screen window to execute.

Instructions for Mac and UNIX users are not available at this time.