That was exactly the ticket!! Thanks for the help Frank!
Eric At 09:00 AM 8/9/2002 +0100, F J Franklin wrote: >On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Eric Thomas wrote: > > I'm having a bit of a problem with opening an abiword document from a web > > link. I've written a script to automatically create abiword documents > from > > a template file with data supplied from a database. The script then > writes > > an HTML page with a link to the document. On clicking the link, however, > > the browser just displays the source as an XML file. > >I think there are two steps to this: > >1. configure your web-server to serve .abw files with MIME info: > application/x-abiword (I think) > >2. instruct users to associate MIME-type "application/x-abiword" with > AbiWord in MSIE's "Preferences"->"Receiving Files"->"File Helpers" > section. > >(I haven't tried this myself, though.) > >Otherwise, I'm not sure. There may be a way to use J[ava]Script to prompt >IE to open a link in a given application. > >Regards, Frank > >Francis James Franklin >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >"No, she really likes me. She told me I look like Britney Spears, and why >would you say that to somebody you don't like?" > --- Elle Woods Thanks, Eric ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
