>>>>>Hi
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>>>>>I use a lot of ASP pages and VFP tables in my internet site.. I now wish to put an 'program.exe' file with a link to it so my users can automatically download it.. but when I try this the NT server actually tries to run this file..
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>>>>>Any ideas of what I'm missing since I click on 8.Exe on other sites and get a chance to save it.
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>>>>>Thanks
>>>>>Richard
>>>>The executable file should reside in an FTP directory (setup in IIS), and the link just references the file. Something like ftp://www.yourdomain.com/downloads/program.exe. where downlaods is the virtual directory you have created in IIS.
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>>>OK Thanks I'' try that but I'm sure I've been on site where link is an http and it auto downloads .. for instance on Microsoft Word 97 doc converter to down load file link is
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>>>http://support.microsoft/download/yada yada/wrd97cnv.exe
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>>>and it works..
>>The executable will still have to be in the FTP directory. You can have a link similar to this:
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>><a href="download.asp?ftp://ftp.yourserver.com/cnv.exe">cnv.exe</a>
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>>Then, the download.asp file could have whatever text you want, and a script to redirect to the file passed in.
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>OK but the microsoft site I referenced has no asp no parameter and no ref to ftp... so how do they do it

If you want to leave the user on the same page, you can just have the link point directly to the file to download. As an example, go to www.dydacomp.com/ricktest.asp