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*Please* include a subject! I don't see why anyone wouldn't,
*especially* if he is asking a how-do-I question! Aaaaaaahhhh!
In any case,
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You can use a ServletOutputStream tou write an output stream to the
browser. As long as you do a setContentType() before writing it, you
can be pretty sure the browser is going to Do The Right Thing. I'm
currently doing this with an electronic document database that supports
a variety of formats. You'd just have to parse the file into a binary
stream and shove it down the pipe. No applet required.
One suggestion, though: don't use files like Word or Excel unless
you're intentionally sharing them like that in order to distribute
editable files. Besides versioning incompatabilities, there are issues
wrt macro viruses, etc. Word and Excel (and any other Windows apps) can
be converted into .pdf quite easily.
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struggling to get out.
It's called Java.
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