I am no expert, but I think they do that with Java. So basically the java
app that runs downloads and then saves the app for you.

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 7:53 AM, Josef Lowder <joe@actionline.com> wrote:

> .
> On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:06:00 -0700, Jon M. Hanson wrote
> > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:02:30AM -0700, Josef Lowder wrote:
> > > .
> > > How can I make a FREE Linux How-to PDF E-book available
> > > for download (to both Windows and Linux users) so that
> > > when someone clicks on a download button on an html
> > > web page, a PDF file would download (to either type
> > > of computer) with a progress bars showing the download
> > > status/progress and the result would be an icon on the
> > > desktop that one could click-on to open the PDF E-book?
> >
> > What you're asking to do is more dependant on how people have their web
> > browsers configured. A web server can't tell a client where to save
> > files and whether or not to display a progress bar.
>
> Many times, I have downloaded something and seen it "install"
> an icon on my desktop, both on my several different Linux systems
> and on my wife's (and other acquaintances') Windows computers.
>
> So how is that done?
>
> Surely there are ways to make this work.
>
>
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