The website I support allows companies and clubs to maintain the mailing lists on line. They can download the list as a CSV list to use in their own label printing software. I create the list normally and send it to them via this routine: 
    #
    #   GET THE LABEL FILE
    #
    $key      = 'Labels';
    $file     = "$path/labels/$key";
    #
    #  SEND THE FILE TO THE BROWSER
    #
    print "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$key.txt\n";
    print "Content-Type: application/octet-stream\n\n";
    my $buffer;
    open (FILE, "$file");
    print $buffer while read(FILE, $buffer, 4096);
    close FILE;

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Normally the receipient's browser show's the file as 'Label.txt'. However I have a customer that is using XP Home and they keep getting a notice that says the file is a '.cgi'. I have them change the file type to '.txt'. I've tested this little code above on XP Professional and I don't have this problem. Any ideas? Thanks, Ron

In reply to Downloading a file to XP Home changes the extenstion by UncleRon

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