Browser and Operating System question

[Buzz]

Hi

I am designing a presentation in html which will be offline and distributed via cd. There is also an offline javascript program involved using IE as a container. My question for you gurus is I have found that when linking to a document or excel spreadsheet in html or javascript i always get a message box asking whether to download or read from current location (this is in Win 98) but on Win 2000 it just loads the documents without a prompt.
Is there a way to configure code so that on a Win 98 system there is no prompt when opening linked documents such as Word , Excel and pdf?

Also how can I include in a link to open the document in its container *such as word* and not load it in the browser?
Or even just to load it in another window ?

Many Thanks for any help.

[Roy Sinclair]

Name your files as *.hta instead of *.htm and that should get rid of the prompt. Note that this will NOT work for web pages served via a web server, it only works for web pages read directly from the file system (which would include the files on a CD).

To find out more about what else you can do with *.hta files go to the MS web site and search using the terms "HTML APPLICATIONS".

[Buzz]

Hi

thanks for your help.

do you mean rename the current html file to hta or the link to file? the files i am trying to launch are not html files they are microsoft word documents im trying to launch from a link in a menu.

so should i rename the actual file with the hyperlinks to .hta ?

thanks

[Buzz]

hi

I just tried changing file to .hta...the page does not keep images or a jscript (hvmenu) ONLY text.

I will research Microsoft about this.

Thanks