[Javascript] Re: Opening file in another app

[phumes1 at home.com]

UltraEdit is setup to open .txt and .dat file extensions. I'm not sure how 
to get it to open up in UltraEdit from a link
with my page?


At 04:45 PM 10/18/01 -0500, you wrote:

>     If the user has an application registered to handle the pertinent file
>type, then it will be opened in that application.  You can't really control
>this from the server (although you can force it to save instead of opening
>by pushing an unknown mimetype).
>
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>From: <phumes1 at home.com>
>To: <javascript at LaTech.edu>
>Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 4:08 PM
>Subject: [Javascript] Re: Opening file in another app
>
>
>|
>| I have a list of files which have <a href"">...</a> around them. When a
>| user clicks on a link, how can I have that "filename" open in UltraEdit or
>| WordPad on the users PC? Has anyone done anything like this?
>|
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