You've got the client set up ok, but I bet your server is attaching a MIME
type of text/plain to the document when it transfers it. Try adding
application/x-excel with the file extension .xls to the list of
filename->MIME type mappings that your server uses. The server docs tell
you how to do this (with the NCSA httpd, you can edit a file called
mime.types in the conf directory)
Jon
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Jon Knight, Research Student in High Performance Networking and Distributed
Systems in the Department of _Computer_Studies_ at Loughborough University.
* It's not how big your share is, its how much you share that's important *