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To: TraderAlan who wrote (5544)	1/24/1999 8:01:00 PM
From: Spots	Respond to of 14778

>> Cookies... Uh, duh. I don't know a heck of a lot about the server side (read that I can spell servur pretty good but not much else <g>), so I don't know if a cookie would let you do that. I guess a perl script or other server-side cgi could allow you to let the user specify a local path once, then save it in a cookie and pick it up again next time. You'd probably first check the default location and, if not there, pop up a dialog that says Would you like to download or else where the heck should I look, then save it in a cookie ... something like that. Having been burned recently for posting assumptions, which I knew were assumptions but somehow nobody else did (can't imagine why<g>), I hasten to add this is an inference based on my no-doubt fairly idiotic notion of how it all works. Spots