sounds like you need a ZIP! what's the programmer's gripe? a self-extracting zip would make it pretty intuitive for the customer. file size is not an issue... is he just concerned that there will be an extra step involved?
-Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Owens, Howard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 4:28 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: 2 Zip or Not 2 Zip My concern is that users won't understand the importance of downloading the text file with the data files and leave the text file behind. H. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim McAtee [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 1:08 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: 2 Zip or Not 2 Zip > > Why not offer both options to the purchaser of the files? If they only > purchase a couple of files, there's not much to be gained, but if they > purchase a lot of files, it would certainly be more convenient to download > them all in one shot. > > Jim > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Owens, Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 12:52 PM > Subject: 2 Zip or Not 2 Zip > > > > I need to set up a process where by a user will select (buy, really) a > > number of data files (songs, actually). These files will be downloaded > onto > > the user machine where a client-side application will manipulate them > > further. As part of the process, we also need to generate a text that > also > > must be transferred to the client machine. > > > > I can only two ways to handle this ... force the user to click multiple > > links to download each file, or run a server-side zip utility to zip > > everything up before shipping it off to the client machine. > > > > The programmer building the client-side application doesn't like this > second > > option. He doesn't want to have to have the client machine unzip the > file > > before doing what his program needs to do. > > > > Is there a way to batch all of the needed files together in a single > > download (using CF to do this) without zipping them together in any way? > > > > H. > > ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
