Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 05:16:40 +0600
From: emile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: format for comment in "bookmark.fav" list

Hi Walt! that is a brilliant idea.  Thanks for the info.

On 2000-02-06 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
   >Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 09:36:37 -700
   >There is no realistic means by which one can use a comment on the
   >same line as a given URL in BOOKMARK.FAV ... The greatest limitation
   >is that MANY URLs exceed 80 columns in length, thus leaving no room
   >for a comment that one could read from within Net-Tamer. To answer
   >the question, though, I've not discovered a method for commenting
   >individual URLs on the same line as the URL. Instead, I use plain
   >text labels on the line ABOVE the URL or above a group of URLs. When
   >I want to find a URL quickly, I use the F key to <F>ind a text
   >string that matches text in the label. Thus, I don't have to spend
   >time paging down the file to find the URL I want. Here is an
   >example:
   >====================================================================
   >==== Local Dopler Radar images are indexed by a 3-character code.
   >Here is the key for each code where "xxxloc" represents a local
   >radar site:
   >--------------------------------------------------------------------
   >---- sealoc = Seattle, Wa  074loc = Lexington, Ky   rduloc =
   >Raleigh, NC houloc = Houston, Tx  pdxloc = Portland, Or    mialoc =
   >Miami, Fl atlloc = Atlanta, Ga  057loc = Des Moines, Ia  laxloc =
   >Los Angeles, Ca sfoloc = SanFrancisco 121loc = New Orleans, La
   >ordloc = Chicago, Il 097loc = Little Rock  109loc = Montgomery, Al
   >060loc = Columbus, Oh bnaloc = Nashville Tn 022loc = Newport, Or.
   >116loc = Panama City, Fl. mcoloc = Orlando, Fl  111loc = Charleston,
   >SC  088loc = Richmond, Va. lgaloc = New York, NY dcaloc =
   >Washington, DC  002loc = Spokane, Wa.
   >====================================================================
   >==== www.weather.com/images/radar/single_site/sealoc_450x284.jpg
   >www.weather.com/images/radar/single_site/074loc_450x284.jpg www.
   >weather.com/images/radar/single_site/rduloc_450x284.jpg www.weather.
   >com/images/radar/single_site/houloc_450x284.jpg www.weather.
   >com/images/radar/single_site/pdxloc_450x284.jpg www.weather.
   >com/images/radar/single_site/022loc_450x284.jpg www.weather.
   >com/images/radar/single_site/mialoc_450x284.jpg www.weather.
   >com/images/radar/single_site/116loc_450x284.jpg www.weather.
   >com/images/radar/single_site/atlloc_450x284.jpg www.weather.
   >com/images/radar/single_site/057loc_450x284.jpg www.weather.
   >com/images/radar/single_site/laxloc_450x284.jpg www.weather.
   >com/images/radar/single_site/sfoloc_450x284.jpg www.weather.
   >com/images/radar/single_site/121loc_450x284.jpg www.weather.
   >com/images/radar/single_site/ordloc_450x284.jpg www.weather.
   >com/images/radar/single_site/097loc_450x284.jpg www.weather.
   >com/images/radar/single_site/109loc_450x284.jpg www.weather.
   >com/images/radar/single_site/060loc_450x284.jpg www.weather.
   >com/images/radar/single_site/bnaloc_450x284.jpg www.weather.
   >com/images/radar/single_site/mcoloc_450x284.jpg www.weather.
   >com/images/radar/single_site/111loc_450x284.jpg www.weather.
   >com/images/radar/single_site/088loc_450x284.jpg www.weather.
   >com/images/radar/single_site/dcaloc_450x284.jpg www.weather.
   >com/images/radar/single_site/lgaloc_450x284.jpg www.weather.
   >com/images/radar/single_site/002loc_450x284.jpg
   >==========Earthquake
   >Data=============================================== This
   >information is Accurate as of November, 1999.  Some URLs may not
   >function at all times. Regional Data is catagorized below.
   >====================================================================
   >==== ----------Significant Earthquake Database Introduction &
   >Search--------- www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/hazard/sigintro.shtml www.
   >ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/hazard/sig_srch.shtml ----------Global Earthquake
   >Information (Archived EQ Listings)---------- wwwneic.cr.usgs.
   >gov/neis/eqlists/eqlists.html ----------Global Earthquake
   >Information (Real-time EQ Lists/Maps)------- wwwneic.cr.usgs.
   >gov/neis/bulletin/bulletin.html hoshi.cic.sfu.ca/cgi-bin/quake.
   >pl?[EMAIL PROTECTED] quake.wr.usgs.
   >gov/cgi-bin/finger?[EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------Global
   >Earthquake Information (Locate Info. By World Region)-- www.geophys.
   >washington.edu/seismosurfing.html
   >--------------------------------------------------------------------
   >---- Of course, one must be careful to select a line with a URL on
   >it, and not a line containing text descriptions. That's not too
   >tough. Walter Scott
   >Quoting Tom Willmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 05 Feb 2000
   >20:37:07 +500:
   >TW> NT will ignore identification comments at the end of address
   >TW>lists  "address.lst" and "ftp.lst" if they are correctly
   >TW>formatted (oddly,  different formatting for each list).
   >TW>
   >TW> I have not stumbled onto the comment format for "bookmark.fav".
   >TW>Does  anyone know what it is, if there is one?
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