I am setting up a 'local website' (not on the www, but on a floppy) but would like to have a form that when'submitted' with run up the email application and copy the forms contents into it.

Can anynody help?

Not sure if this is what you want, but you can do this:

<form method="post" action="mailto:dest@address?subject=form output" enctype="text/plain">
<input type="text" name="exmpl1">
<textarea name="exmpl2" rows="4" cols="40"></textarea>
<select name="exmpl3">
<option value="1">first
<option value="2">another
</select>
</form>

HTH Ton