Basically the word documents I want to open will be stored locally, not sure where exactly yet but for now lets assume its on the users c: drive. I tried using a link to the file but as it’s a .doc extension it doesn’t seem to recognise it, I changed the file to a .txt extension and it opened it up in the browser.(so it recognises .txt but not .doc)

I assume its not recognising the .doc format and I have to tell it this somehow. However I don’t have access to the Win32 module as we are using an earlier version of Perl. So I guess im asking if there is a way I can get round this. The script I’m running is a perl script that just outputs data in a table and I want one of these cells to be the link to the file.

At the moment if I say 

<td><ahref="c:/worddoc.doc">Link</a></td>

[download]
When I click the link I just get a blank page.

My preference would be to have the document actually open up in word on the client side. Being new to Perl im just trying out a few ways of doing things but not getting very far. (the force is not strong in this one…. yet)

Hopefully that clarifies things.

Many thanks for your help so far.

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In reply to Re: how do i open a word doc? by Anonymous Monk
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