Director Projector to Projector file linking.

How do I Link a windows Director Projector file to another windows Director Projector file ( without opening this linked file in a browser ), it should open like the first projector file ( .exe file) ?

Thanks. That sort of worked. The web design guy says he no
longer gets the missing director file error, but now the movie just
loops rather than jump to the next dcr movie. Strange thing is,
when I run it on another hard drive or even off a CD, the files
find each other and run without a hitch. I can't figure out why on
his server, his first movie just loops. (I checked my files, there
are no looping settings selected when published.)
Someone else suggested altering the code:
goToNetMovie(the moviePath & pThePath)
where pThePath="yourOldPath/yourOldFile.dcr"
but that just caused more errors. maybe I didn't pop in my
data correctly.

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