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Re: Ka9q/TextWin web file grabber (was: ... is it *truly* possible to flush locally?)

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From: Chris Croughton
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 00:00
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In article <32143a24.3868200@news.demon.co.uk>
           robm@demon.net "Robert Mortimer" wrote:

>Programming smigeons in the park??

Ah, another Tom Lehrer fan!  And a proto-filker <g>...

>/* the coffee machine's been worked on no coffee yet :-( */

Sad.  Have some virtual tea instead (it tastes almost, but not exactly,
unlike tea - but it's nutritionally balanced, the machine said so)...

>As an interesting point, there's a fun dos utility called snipper
>, I think, which allows you to copy bit's of screen to a buffer and
>then write them back to prompt. If you where to load this tsr before
>KA9Q, you could use the url grabber and then snip links...
>Basic web browsing but....and no I haven't tried this yet.

Since I use DesqView I can do that anyway, just switch to another
session and look at the file, cut the section and paste into the KA9Q
one.  I do that frequently with archie searche (well, I used to when
archie was at all useful)...

>Anyone know how MSIE3 caches, as this is now Demon's windoze
>grazer of choice??

Oh, the Internet Explorer thing?  No idea, all I know about it is that
it's the viewer Win95 uses for looking at GIF and JPEG files...

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From: Chris Croughton <chris@keris.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Ka9q/TextWin web file grabber (was: ... is it *truly* possible to flush locally?)
Date: 1996/08/17
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