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Article #807Re: Ka9q/TextWin web file grabber (was: ... is it *truly* possible to flush locally?)
From: Robert Mortimer
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 00:00
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Previously Chris Croughton <chris@keris.demon.co.uk> said:
>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>...
You mean there are people who'd read this froup who aren't
fans?? Filker, I ain't no filker not even a proto-filker.
/* Accsuing someone of filking in public..how low can you get?? */
>>/* 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)...
Hmmmm... sounds like coffee to me.
>>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)...
True, thinking about it I could do the same with dr-dos task manager,
but then I forget I've got that.
>>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...
Either way an unbatch to cache would probably be the best bet, or
run winpacket give the http server version of ka9q it's own ip
and connect to the packet driven ka9q from windoze.
--
RobertM
Demon Internet Ltd
"Trust the computer, the computer is your fiend"
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10bb05,467f920bc280412f X-Google-Attributes: gid10bb05,public From: robm@demon.net (Robert Mortimer) Subject: Re: Ka9q/TextWin web file grabber (was: ... is it *truly* possible to flush locally?) Date: 1996/08/19 Message-ID: <3218a779.24251459@news.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 175129484 x-nntp-posting-host: bob1.support.demon.net references: <838060435snz@dsl.co.uk> <838306928snz.4895@grempc.demon.co.uk> <Snews.960814.195625.chris.1268@keris.demon.co.uk> <840118246snz@wash.demon.co.uk> <32143a24.3868200@news.demon.co.uk> <Snews.960817.084409.chris.1441@keris.demon.co.uk> organization: Demon Internet Ltd reply-to: robm@demon.net newsgroups: demon.ip.developers