How to make a FREE Linux E-book download?

[John]

You could probably find a progress bar at http://www.hotscripts.com. I've seen them for php so I'm sure there's a java one there. Not sure how to create a desktop icon though.


--- On Sat, 4/19/08, Josef Lowder <joe at actionline.com> wrote:

> From: Josef Lowder <joe at actionline.com>
> Subject: Re: How to make a FREE Linux E-book download?
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Date: Saturday, April 19, 2008, 9:53 AM
> .
> 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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