Zip the file and put a link to it in the page eg
<a href="file.zip">Download Now!</a>
On a more general level, the following article appeared recently in a
similar post to this group and is worth a look at
<http://www.hut.fi/u/jkorpela/www/links.html#intro 

If the viewer chooses to save the file locally without viewing they can do
so. But in general it is better to let them see it (maybe they don't want to
save it). If the HTML file is large (in bytes) and or you want to offer
several files together then consider a zip file. -- 

Rob
http://rock13.com/
<http://www.deja.com/[ST_artlink=rock13.com]/jump/http://rock13.com/>


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Tricia Lease [SMTP:tdlease(at)telesouth1.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, 23 May 2000 9:53
> To:	hwg-basics(at)hwg.org
> Subject:	making a file download
> 
> Hi Group!
> 
> I need to make a file available to visitors to download. It will be 
> on a regular page on our site, and when the user clicks "Download 
> Now"  the download will start.  Can someone tell me how to do it?
> 
> TIA!
> Tricia Lease

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