plain old button link

Well, if you don't want to use javascript, it can be as simple as that:

<FORM action="software/oakwoodvpn.exe">
<p> <input value="get" class="button_match1" style="float: right;" type="submit">
</p>
</form>

There's no such method "LINK", if you want to specify a method, use GET instead, or specify nothing.
Also, there's no need for the <a> tag. the action parameter can handle that.

Thanks

but some how instead of getting the link of the executible (vpn.exe), I just get the name (vpn)  I can still download the file, it's just without it's extension (unless I append it after downloading)

It works locally if you open it in your browser
  file:///c:/Apache2/htdocs/index.html

but not via http (clips off the .exe)
   http://myworkstation/index.html

so maybe ...

<form method="post" action="">
<input type="button" value="get" " 'some javascript thing here?' "software/vpn.exe">
</form>

So, the button is obviously not meant to do anything but cgi stuff.  so what bit of code would allow a button to open a webpage?

Follow mad dog's good advice.

As for the download, you're gonna have to specify the correct content type, here ya go:

http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/www/content-type.html

oh geez, why just post lengthy links, it's a good read though if you're up for it.  you just gotta set the enctype attrube of the form tag:

<FORM action="software/oakwoodvpn.exe" enctype="application/octet-stream">
<p> <input value="get" class="button_match1" style="float: right;" type="submit">
</p>
</form>

Cheers,

Jesse

Going by mad dogs example, I eventually mucked around and settled on:
<form name="form1" method="post" action="">
      <input type="button" class="button_match1" style="float: right;" value="Get" onClick="location.href='software/vpnclient.exe'">
</form>

The CSS  based button worked great

What plans do you have in order to support those without scripting?