Well ... you don't say whether the word doc will look different (graphics, fonts sizes, etc) from the TXT doc so I'll assume they dont.

Just generate the plain text page and then set the content-type (CGI header method) to text/plain or application/ms-word. MS-Word will open and display the plain text just fine.

The only caveat being that some browsers (and we all know there really doesn't need to be an s on the end of browsers) totally ignores the content-type so you may have to also changed the extension of the file being delivered (.txt or .doc). There are ways to do this (mod-perl, re-directs, etc) but get the content-type approach working first and then jump the hoops only if you have to).

-derby

Update: I'm also assuming, you don't want the user to just use the File->Save As function of the browser after your results page is delivered to the browser - that would really be the easiest approach.

In reply to Re: Save results on web page to doc or txt by derby
in thread Save results on web page to doc or txt by Wampa

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