Unless there is some way to ZIP the file just before sending, it would be impractical for my particular situation Stephan. The files are updated and written to constantly on the server by the users who 'own them' so to speak. They are data files that are used by doctorate students for questionnaire analysis (tabulated text), but the problem is most doctorate students I've talked to don't know how to open Word 2 days in a row, much less unzipping something =). It's good to be able to let them download it straight to a floppy and start using it straight away in SPSS, or whatever statistical analysis program they are using.
It's a good idea for most other sites, and I'd love to know if there is a way of pre-zipping something for download on the fly. -Shannon > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephan Tinnemeyer) > Organization: Akademischer Segler-Verein in Kiel e. V. > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Newsgroups: perl.beginners.cgi > Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 22:12:23 +0100 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Auto-initialising a client-side download > > Shannon, > > did you try my idea to zip the file? Even Internet Explorer should > recognize this as a compressed file. Compressed files must be downloaded > first and should be expanded automatically when the browser is > configured correctly. > > As Mac user, you may prefer StuffIt for compression (give your visitors > a link to http://www.aladdinsys.com/expander/ ) but although the free > Expander software is available for Windows, Linux and Solaris too, you > may have the problem again that IE (for Windows?) does not recognize > this file type correctly. > > Cheers > > Stephan > -- > Dipl.-Chem. Stephan Tinnemeyer > Lindenallee 20 > 24105 Kiel > Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
