On or near 1/27/2001 8:35 PM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
observed:
> On 1/27/01 7:49 PM, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Erik, just a thought. When we upload scripts to you, could you inform us
>> what ID is assigned to it? When we announce to the list, we can then give a
>> URL in the form you show in your message, so that people can directly link
>> to download it.
>
> Why should Erik have to go to all that bother, Alan? All you have to do is
> go to the website when the script is up and read the ID number appear in the
> description. Erik has been asking me to do this (with the previous mouse
> hovering that was necessary before he added the ID to the description) and
> to quote the ID when sending updates for some time now, so I doubt that he
> would really enjoy doing the same thing we can do for ourselves, for all of
> us on all our scripts.
>>
>> And, any chance you can quickly generate a list showing script name/ID for
>> all the scripts you have, so that we could use it to quickly refer people to
>> where to download a particular script? That would be terrific, if it is
>> something you can do easily.
>
>
> This would be handy, except that it will be out of date a few hours later. I
> don't think we can expect Erik to keep sending us updates - or even that
> we'd want a continual onslaught of these updates. I suppose it might not be
> too hard for him to provide a link to a list of the Ids that updates itself,
> but that's really no different than just checking the download list, is it?
No, but my thought is that Erik <may> have quick and easy access to that
information, and possibly can quickly throw together a hack to generate such
a list on the fly. Perhaps even as a page on his site that we could access
and download the list (up to date) at will. I still work on a dial up line,
not always on line. Going to a web site, if I am not on line at the moment,
is a process that takes three to five minutes given time to dial in, launch
the browser, access the desired URL, wait for the page to get painted, etc.
If I had to do that every time I wanted an ID number I'd never do it. BTW, a
tab-delimited text file for the ID list would be superb; I could suck it
into a FileMaker database and have a searchable index on my own computer!
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Don't worry; my partner, Peggy, and I are currently involved in a technical
discussion of how best to implement DSL for our desktop and laptop machines,
with hers being Windoz and mine Mac. Anybody know of a good, working,
<wireless> setup that allows Windoz and Macs to be on the same network
sharing the same DSL line? Is there hardware or software that allows Windoz
machines to share an Airport network?)
<end Off Topic>
Erik usually sends me an acknowledgment when he has received a script I've
sent. I was thinking he might be able to include the new ID for the
script(s) in that ack. That might be too much trouble, and if so he can
forget I asked, but if it would be easy...why not? I just thought I'd ask.
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