document type = application/vnd.ms-excel

2004-02-26 Thread Moon, John
I am trying to generate a web page with : print $q->header("application/vnd.ms-excel"), This tries to launch Excel but I get the error: "File cannot be opened because: A declaration was not closed Line 1, Position 1 <" When I use: print $q->header("text/html"), The page displays correctly and I

Re: document type = application/vnd.ms-excel

2004-02-26 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> I am trying to generate a web page with : > print $q->header("application/vnd.ms-excel"), > > This tries to launch Excel but I get the error: > "File cannot be opened because: A declaration was not closed Line 1, > Position 1 <" > > When I use: > print $q->header("text/html"), > > The page dis

Re: document type = application/vnd.ms-excel

2004-02-26 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Wiggins d Anconia wrote: I am trying to generate a web page with : print $q->header("application/vnd.ms-excel"), This tries to launch Excel but I get the error: "File cannot be opened because: A declaration was not closed Line 1, Position 1 <" When I use: print $q->header("text/html"), The page dis

RE: What are you really trying to do? - document type = applicat ion/vnd.ms-excel

2004-02-26 Thread Moon, John
What I'm trying to do is make my new boss happy! They like everything in Excel. I have a BUNCH of CGI scripts on a SUN Unix generating tons of very nice HTML pages from data in an Oracle database I "need" to alternately be able to generate the same pages in an Excel spreadsheet... Any thought

RE: What are you really trying to do? - document type = applicat ion/vnd.ms-excel

2004-02-26 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
Gotcha, please bottom post... > What I'm trying to do is make my new boss happy! They like everything in > Excel. > Picky picky ;-)... manglement (as drieux would say) has its quirks. > I have a BUNCH of CGI scripts on a SUN Unix generating tons of very nice > HTML pages from data in an Orac

RE: What are you really trying to do? - document type = applicat ion/vnd.ms-excel

2004-02-26 Thread Bob Showalter
Moon, John wrote: > What I'm trying to do is make my new boss happy! They like everything > in Excel. > > I have a BUNCH of CGI scripts on a SUN Unix generating tons of very > nice HTML pages from data in an Oracle database I "need" to > alternately be able to generate the same pages in an Ex

RE: What are you really trying to do? - document type = applicat ion/vnd.ms-excel

2004-02-26 Thread Chris Mortimore
John: > I am trying to generate a web page with : > print $q->header("application/vnd.ms-excel"), > > This tries to launch Excel but I get the error: > "File cannot be opened because: A declaration was not closed Line 1, > Position 1 <" > > When I use: > print $q->header("text/html"), > > The p

RE: What are you really trying to do? - document type = applicat ion/vnd.ms-excel

2004-02-26 Thread Moon, John
-Original Message- From: Wiggins d Anconia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 3:03 PM To: Moon, John; CGI Beginners Subject: RE: What are you really trying to do? - document type = applicat ion/vnd.ms-excel Gotcha, please bottom post... > What I'm trying to do is