online document forms

[Thomas McMillan Grant Bennett]

You could compress these with a zip program as a self expanding zip
file. This would automatically give them the .exe extension and no need
for the user to have an unzip utility.

Thomas

Jim Morgan wrote:

> A department has asked us to mount some wordprocessing forms on the
> internet so that their recipients could use the in WordPerfect, Word,
> etc.
> It seemed an easy request, since we have some .exe files we make
> available this way, but I haven't figured out how to list the
> document so that Netscape et.al. will download it instead of trying to
>
> read it.  The documents in question have .doc and .wpd extensions.
> When
> Netscape displays them, I've tried saving to disk, but Netscape
> apparently
> adds some additional text to them that makes the unreadable by the
> wordprocessor.  Has anyone found a way to make wordprocessing
> docuements
> available to web users?
>
> Jim Morgan
> morganj at iupui.edu



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