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How do you download an MS WORD document?
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>Hey Wayne,
>Thanx for responding. I want to do it programmatically. Someone once showed me a meta tag attribute that would insure this but I can't remeber it.
>
>Any thoughts?
>Neil
>
>>>I set up an anchor tag to download a file.
>>>ie: Download myfile
>>>
>>>When you hit the link the file downloads after a client DL dialog. However, if you replace myfile.trt with an MS WORD document, the word document opens in a browser window.
>>>
>>>I want the word document to download not to open. How do you do that? Someone once showed me a way to modify this feature via a
<meta>
tag attribute but for the life of me I can't remember. Any thoughts?
>>>
>>>Neil
>>
>>You can right-click and "Save Target As"

I found these... the first one is supposed to pop up the save as when going to a new page. The second is supposed to make the save-as pop up...

meta http-equiv=refresh content=0;url=x.doc

meta Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Wayne Myers, MCSD
Senior Consultant
Forte' Incorporated
"The only things you can take to heaven are those which you give away" Author Unknown
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