Christof Lange wrote:
>
> Where can I find this
> file CLIP.tmp? When and for how long does it exist?
This file will appear in your main Arachne directory whenever you select
(highlight) a text item by shiftENTER or whatever twitchy means a mouser
might use. It will contain the highlighted material until overwritten by
by a new entry. It is never erased.
It is also used to transport multiline text material that has been
highlighted by cntrlB, cntrlK and copied to the clipboard by cntrlC.
> >The problem is that DOS can't edit the hotlist to remove something in the
> >middle, but while writing this it occurred to me that using DOS to pipe
> >the hotlist thru "FIND", passing only those lines that DON'T contain the
> >target (which is in CLIP.tmp) to a new copy of the hotlist might actually
> >work. So maybe it CAN work, at least in theory.
>
> Can this piping method be applied to any page that I currently
> have on the screen? And why not?
>
> Let us say I do not like to have the letter 'A' on a certain web
> page. I have a small batch utility that replaces all 'A' in a file
> by 'B'. Can I perform this by a <SHIFT FN> command from Arachne in
> such a way that the new page immediately replaces the old one on the
> screen, ie. without saving to disk and reload from disk?
Sure, sort of. There are some semantics involved in "without saving to disk
and reloading" because it must do just that, but you shouldn't notice.
I would imagine this to take an hour or so of experiment, and the main
difficulties will probably be with extraneous output from "find", but I
have a way or 2 around that which I will offer once that is all that's
left for YOU to worry about. <G>
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