Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
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> Ken wrote:
>   How does it appear to you when you view the message. Do some of you
> have to download the file to see it, are they active links when you
> view them, what other problems or observations do you have concening
> me sharing my collection with you in this manner. I would like to see
> them usable by as many people as possible and need to know what format
> will achieve that goal.

In MSIE 5.0, Win98, the page is fully HTML. Links appear properly -in blue-
along with the message. Explorer also brings an attachment -the same page-.
Thank you for sharing your links.

Regards,
Marjorie

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Ken wrote:

>   When I posted the bookmark file I attached it as an html file. When I
> view the message as posted using Netscape I see the bookmarks inline with
> the message and each of the entries appear as active clickable links.
> 
>   How does it appear to you when you view the message.

Ken, unless you canceled the post, it didn't show up at all.
+-------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| Rev. Bob "Bob" Crispen        |            "IT FOUND ME!"            |
| cri### [at] hiwaaynet            |      Campus Crusade for Cthulhu      |
+-------------------------------+--------------------------------------+

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Please ignore my previous message.  I can't seem to read a simple
English sentence tonight.

They showed up as clickable links in Netscape Communicator 4.08.
+-------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| Rev. Bob "Bob" Crispen        |            "IT FOUND ME!"            |
| cri### [at] hiwaaynet            |      Campus Crusade for Cthulhu      |
+-------------------------------+--------------------------------------+

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Ken wrote in message <376### [at] pacbellnet>...
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>Question :
>
>  When I posted the bookmark file I attached it as an html file. When I
>view the message as posted using Netscape I see the bookmarks inline with
>the message and each of the entries appear as active clickable links.
>
>  How does it appear to you when you view the message. Do some of you
>have to download the file to see it, are they active links when you
>view them, what other problems or observations do you have concening
>me sharing my collection with you in this manner. I would like to see
>them usable by as many people as possible and need to know what format
>will achieve that goal.


Outlook Express: When I downloaded the most recent messages from the group,
the attachment was downloaded automatically, but I was given the choice of
saving the bookmark file to disk or opening it immediately using my web
browser (Netscape).  The only attachments that are automatically displayed
by Outlook Express are attached images.

Mark

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On Thu, 17 Jun 1999 23:24:43 -0700, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:

>  How does it appear to you when you view the message. Do some of you
>have to download the file to see it, are they active links when you
>view them, what other problems or observations do you have concening
>me sharing my collection with you in this manner. 

Agent: it shows up as a netscape icon which I have to launch to see.
slrn: it shows up as pure HTML code, which I have to save to disk and
      manually launch netscape to see.

Keep in mind that a lot of our Unix friends are likely to be using 
rn, trn, slrn or the like to read news, so the fact that I use slrn
is not as odd as it may seem.

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Ron Parker wrote:

> Agent: it shows up as a netscape icon which I have to launch to see.

Once in netscape I presume it if fully functional ?

> slrn: it shows up as pure HTML code, which I have to save to disk and
>       manually launch netscape to see.

Is this bad ?

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 ?

 
> Keep in mind that a lot of our Unix friends are likely to be using
> rn, trn, slrn or the like to read news, so the fact that I use slrn
> is not as odd as it may seem.

  I understand this is the case and is also the reason I took the time to
ask.

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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Ken wrote:
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> Ron Parker wrote:
> 
> > Agent: it shows up as a netscape icon which I have to launch to see.
> 
> Once in netscape I presume it if fully functional ?
> 
> > slrn: it shows up as pure HTML code, which I have to save to disk and
> >       manually launch netscape to see.
> 
> Is this bad ?
> 
> 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 ?

  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.

P.S. Atlantic City is indeed in N.J. but from where I live it seems
close to Atlanta Ga. :)

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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Ken wrote:
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> Ron Parker wrote:
> 
> > Agent: it shows up as a netscape icon which I have to launch to see.
> 
> Once in netscape I presume it if fully functional ?

Indeed it is.  I chose to save and use it in a slightly different way,
however.  I saved it as a page which I access when I open Composer. 
That way, I can add my own comments to the links.  The links work as
they're designed when I preview the page.

I don't know if anyone else has said this yet, but *thank you* for
taking the time to share your bookmarks.  I've used them a lot, and they
sure save time and effort.

Dan

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On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:17:19 -0700, Ken wrote:
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>
>Ron Parker wrote:
>
>> Agent: it shows up as a netscape icon which I have to launch to see.
>
>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.
>
>Is this bad ?
>
>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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