Re: download files

by Christopher Higgs <c.higgs(at)landfood.unimelb.edu.au>

Date:	Fri, 05 Nov 1999 14:23:17 +1100
To:	Cassandra Sharpe <cassandra_in_pa(at)email.com>
Cc:	hwg-basics(at)hwg.org
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G'Day Cassandra,

At 03:13 pm 4/11/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Example #1:
><a href="thefile.doc">Click here to download file one</a>
>Result:  It views the file in my browser instead of prompting me to
>download.

This is correct - it's a "feature" of IE, one of the reasons I keep NN on
my machine :)

An alternative might be to direct them to a directory without an index file
(assuming your server allows directory browsing.  That way it is more like
a FTP connection.


Chris Higgs <c.higgs(at)landfood.unimelb.edu.au>
Institute of Land and Food Resources,  
University of Melbourne, http://www.landfood.unimelb.edu.au
List Guide Manager, HTML Writers Guild, http://www.hwg.org

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