On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:17:19 -0700, Ken wrote:
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>Ron Parker wrote:
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>> Agent: it shows up as a netscape icon which I have to launch to see.
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>Once in netscape I presume it if fully functional ?

Yes.

>> slrn: it shows up as pure HTML code, which I have to save to disk and
>>       manually launch netscape to see.
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>Is this bad ?
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>What other options do I have for distributing it to the widest number of
>platforms and what then is the best format to post links of this kind ?

Nope, not bad.  In fact, I'd say this is your best option for such
distribution, considering the content.  Perhaps a note at the top
in plain text for those of us whose newsreaders don't understand 
HTML directly would be in order, explaining that what follows is
HTML and should be viewed in a web browser.  I know that's obvious
to most of us, but others might be put off by all the funny angle-
brackets (and the warning Netscape puts at the top of the file in 
comments.)

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Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
:   Bear in mind that when I post these in html format it keeps intact all
: of my bookmark descriptions that took a considerable amount of time to add
: to each link. If I were to simply copy and past the links as plain text
: I would lose these valuable link discriptions. I type too slow and do
: not really feel inspired to type in 500+ new descriptions thank you.

  If you are using unix you can use the sed command to automatically
reformat all those 500+ lines. For example suppose that the original file
(let's name it 'links.html') has the following lines:

<p><a href="http://some.place/some/file.html">Very cool page!</a>
<p><a href="http://other.place/ugly/file.html">This page sux.</a>

  Now the command:

sed 's/<p><a href="//;s/">/: /;s/<\/a>//' links.html

prints the following lines:

http://some.place/some/file.html: Very cool page!
http://other.place/ugly/file.html: This page sux.

  This way you could automatically reformat any amount of lines in seconds.

  Of course, if you are not using unix, you have a problem... :)

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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