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- URL Grabber, software and documentation is copyright
- 1993, 1994 by Howard Harawitz and Brooklyn North
- Software Works, all rights reserved.
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- Brooklyn North Software Works
- 25 Doyle Street
- Bedford, Nova Scotia B4A 1K4
- Canada
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- Email: harawitz@brooknorth.bedford.ns.ca
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- WHAT IS "URL Grabber"?
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- URL Grabber is a small floating tool bar that resides in a
- corner of your MS Windows desktop.
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- It enables you to easily 'grab' and store URLs from news
- groups, Email messages and other sources, as you are
- reading them.
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- With a 'click' of a mouse, URL Grabber will automatically
- convert your collection of URLs to active WWW links
- on an HTML page.
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- With another mouse click, URL Grabber will bring up
- your favorite browser displaying your collected links so
- you can view Web pages, download files and otherwise
- obtain information from the WWW almost instantly.
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- HOW TO USE URL GRABBER
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- First, select or create a file for storing your collected
- URLs. To do this, simply click the "File..." button on the
- tool bar and use the file select dialog to select an existing
- file or enter a file name.
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- Then, while you are perusing newsgroups, online
- publications, Email, or any other text source that permits
- copying to the Windows clipboard, simply select a URL
- by dragging across it with the mouse.
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- Use your application's "Copy" (or equivalent) function to
- copy the selected URL to the clipboard.
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- Next, click URL Grabber's "Paste" button.
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- A small dialog box, displaying the selected URL, will
- appear. You can edit it if necessary.
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- Optionally, you can add a comment or description which
- will appear as the "Clickable" text when a browser page is
- created.
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- If you want to save time, and omit the step of adding a
- comment, URL Grabber will automatically use the URL as
- the "clickable" text when it creates a browser page.
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- When you are finished with the dialog box, simply press
- the <Enter> key, or click the "OK" button. If you change
- your mind, and don't want to keep the URL, click the
- "Cancel" button or press the <Esc> key.
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- The URLs are stored in "HTML Assistant URL File"
- format. That is, as a text file with each URL/Comment pair
- on a single line, separated by a comma. You can view and
- edit the URL file at any time by clicking the "View"
- button.
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- The file is automatically updated after any entries or
- changes are made.
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- There is a file size limitation of just under 32K. That is,
- to successfully create a browser page, the HTML file must
- be less than 32K long. That means that the maximum size
- of your URL file shouldn't be more than 29 or 30K in
- length. You can usually store more than 300 URLs in
- each file.
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- AUTOMATICALLY CREATE A BROWSER PAGE
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- After collecting one or more URLs, you can at any time
- have URL Grabber automatically create a browser page
- by clicking the "Create..." button.
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- You may enter a title, a main heading and a subheading
- for your page if you wish. You can add horizontal lines as
- separators, choose a numbered or unnumbered (bulleted)
- list, and elect to add extra spacing between lines.
-
- When you are ready, click the button with the lightning
- bolt on it (chosen after the symbol of the wizard,
- "Shazam", in the old Captain Marvel comics), and URL
- Grabber will create your HTML page, display it, permit
- you to edit it, and to save it.
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- DISPLAY YOUR FILE WITH YOUR BROWSER
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- After it is has been saved, you can view your new HTML
- page with your favorite browser by clicking the "Open
- Browser" button on the dialog. If you haven't already
- told URL Grabber where to find your browser, a dialog
- will open which will permit you to provide this
- information.
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- Remember to CLOSE your browser after viewing.
-
- Because URL Grabber passes the name of your HTML
- file to the browser on the command line, it must reopen
- the browser each time you want to display a modified
- page. If the browser is already open when you click the
- "Open Browser" button, you will see an error message.
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- You can change browsers at any time by clicking the
- "Choose browser..." button.
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- That's all there is to it!
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