Thanks Rob. That is exactly what I needed. >Jared: > >You can't necessarily force Notepad, but you can output the text file as an >attachment and allow the end user to open it in his or her default app >associated with TXT files. > >Give this a shot: > ><cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="attachment; filename=file.txt"> ><cfcontent type="text/plain" file="C:\filepath\file.txt"> > >Make sure you do not output anything else to the browser... including >whitespace and debugging info. > >Rob
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