.bnk files rendered as garbled text in Safari

I'm working with a customer who links to .BNK files from their web application. .BNK files are a proprietary educational format, and they open natively in education software installed on the computer. But for some reason, Safari attempts to render these files (as garbled text), rather than downloading them to open in the software. IE and Firefox don't have this problem when they're used to access the same files off of the same server. The files download properly in these other browsers.
Does anyone know why Safari is trying to render the .BNK files and how we might be able to override that?

Archive (.zip) them prior to upload.
A .zip file will always download.

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