Forcing "Save As"

[Rosie]

I know this may be a stupid question, but hopefully someone can help me.
When designing a page, how do you force the "File Save As" box to open when
someone clicks on a file name on your page? (so that they can automatically
save the file to their hard drive.) There have been problems with it just
opening a new browser window. Also saving as a .zip file is not an option,
but any other format is.

Any help you can provide would be great.

Thanks so much!

[rams]

"Rosie" <rosiefin@another.com> wrote:
>
>I know this may be a stupid question, but hopefully someone can help me.

>When designing a page, how do you force the "File Save As" box to open
when
>someone clicks on a file name on your page? (so that they can automatically
>save the file to their hard drive.) There have been problems with it just
>opening a new browser window. Also saving as a .zip file is not an option,
>but any other format is.
>
>Any help you can provide would be great.
>
>Thanks so much!

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Use the FileInputStream and the related things.

[Brett]

i believe this might also depend on each browser's configuration. for example,
i might have "automatically open specific a file type" and you might have
a question prompt. ie does this a lot.


"rams" <rammsc@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>"Rosie" <rosiefin@another.com> wrote:
>>
>>I know this may be a stupid question, but hopefully someone can help me.
>
>>When designing a page, how do you force the "File Save As" box to open
>when
>>someone clicks on a file name on your page? (so that they can automatically
>>save the file to their hard drive.) There have been problems with it just
>>opening a new browser window. Also saving as a .zip file is not an option,
>>but any other format is.
>>
>>Any help you can provide would be great.
>>
>>Thanks so much!
>
>************
>Use the FileInputStream and the related things.
>