Yes you are correct. I zipped up the .doc and then created a self extracting file of the zip. That caused the client's DL dialog to pop up when the link to the file was hit. But... my users don't have a clue as to how to extract the .doc from the self extracting file. So therefore, I still need to have a .doc file cause the DL dialog on the client side to popup.

Regards,
Neil
>Hi Neil,
>
>oops, didn't read the question slowly enough
>to register...
>
>I wrote abaout client side techniques,
>whereas you were looking for server side options.
>
>That should depend on the protocol and or the extension
>of the link. have you tried ftp:\\ and another extension ?
>
>Perhaps a zipped version with .zip ?
>
>HTH
>
>thomas