Sorry about forgetting the subject line!!!
Gary
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Formanek Gary L
> Sent: Friday, March 19, 1999 7:58 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know if you can read a file of say MS Word or Excel or any
> other
> file for that matter such as a Acrobat .PDF file (either locally or from a
> servlet), and then from the applet, direct the file to a browser which
> will
> recognize the mime type and automatically start up MS Word (or whatever)
> and
> display the document? This would be similar to when you click on a link in
> the browser and cause the browser to start up an application. If I use
> this
> method, I don't want to have to have the file be located on the server in
> the web anywhere (I know how to do this). I want to actually serialize the
> file from the servlet back to the applet or read it locally from the
> applet
> and push to the browser.
>
> If this can't be done by the applet, can you do it with a servlet by
> directing the output back to the browser?
>
> TIA,
>
> Gary
>
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