On 14 Sep 2006 at 0:05, Wayne Johnson wrote: > At 08:32 PM 9/13/2006, Bernie Cosell typed: > >I've been doing a lot of work with csv files recently and one thing is > >driving me crazy: in IE, when I download a CSV file IE just displays it. > >It displays fine, of course, since it is basically a text file, but I > >can't work with that mess. What can I do to tell IE that instead of > >displaying the file it should launch the associated application? > > One thing you can do is right click the link & do a Save As then IE > will save the CSV properly
That's what I do and in addition to the extra steps my system is getting cluttered with all of these stupid csv files [I'm trying to debug the program that generates them....:o)] which is why I was asking about getting IE to do it "on the fly" out of temp area. Considering that there are zillions of file types, I'd have assumed that there was some simple/obvious way to tell IE exactly which ones it should handle how [indeed, on other apps I mess with, not only can you do that, but you can also specify a specific app [overriding the registry "open" action] if you please]. I also confess that I don't know exactly what MIME type the web server sends over for .csv files [and I also don't know if IE bases its file- handling decision on the MIME type it is given, the 'extension' on the URL, or by "guessing"], so it is possible that the damn server is sending over some kind of text MIME type rather than application/something and IE is just dealing with it that way... gonna chase down the sysadmin this am to find out... /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
