Dear Ron,
>Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 14:11:32 +0000
>From: "Ron Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Edit Arachne's Hotlist
>
> Actually, you can. Use the Search hotkey - "/" (*) and enter a little bit
>of the text you know is in the URL title. Michael's excellent search
>routine will find it, but only if it is in the file you have on your
>screen. I have gotten into the habit of using this facility on any file
>or web page that is longer than one screen display. Much of the time this
>is even faster than using my "Topic Header" internal links.
you are probably right, I have not very often made use of this
tool...
> My main BOOKMARK.HTM (the "master bookmark index") also has a section
>called "My Hard Disks", into which are placed links to all the
>directories of .HTM files and links to indeces. Thus Arachne has also
>become a most important desktop portal to all the HTM and related files
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Oh, it's not Ron, it's actually Bill speaking...
What are you doing here, on our list, Bill?
>on my entire system. As it happens, I have also set up my nominated
>"home page" for Arachne as a web-page type .HTM file, that links to .OOK
>files calling many of my DOS applications, as well as having links to
>each of my ISP's on-line websites and to Google.
Using Arachne as a shell for different applications? I thought about
it too, Arachne has no task switching. What would be important to put
into an OOK file is a file manager and selecting of national
character sets (replace fonts and keyboard map and change
ARACHNE.CFG).
>in every sense. Which makes me wonder if there will ever be a *best* way
>to set up a bookmark/hotlist manager that suits everyone.
Well it is a bit more than exchange of knowledge on how to work with
a ready programme. Arachne is in progress. There are many
alternative solutions for one problem. And the compact file approach
or the dir2htm tool are in my eyes alternative ways of handling
bookmarks and HTML archives.
What has finally convinced me that Michael is right: On Saturday I
tried to backup email of half a year. Because the monthly folders
from Pegasus contained several hundreds of files and were much to big
for floppies, I tried to extract them to individual files and collect
them into zip files. I moved extracted every message, moved it to
a zip directory, zipped them together. Then I tested it the other way
around: Unzipped the archive, opened the zip directory moved the
files back to a Pegasus folder. Working with individual files
at this scale is much too slow! Goodbye, directories! I put my
desktop into one file just as Ron and Bill do. But I have to get a
utility that divides up zip files to several floppies...
Regards, Christof
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Christof Lange
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