VBOK #1 - Download non-linked files ______________________________________________________________________ Hey everybody, Everybody? Yep, everybody. There are 58 of you on this mailing list. This is my first attempt at spamming :) Actually I don't think you can call it spamming, because I know every one of you. Unfortunately for you, that means you know me too :) Why does it have my name in the "TO:" section, and where is everybody's e-mail address? Ok you caught me, this is an elaborate plot to confuse you, and you were just too smart (Yeah, right!). Seriously, not everyone wants their e-mail address available for everyone else to see, so I send the message to myself (It's the only way I get e-mail :) and blind CC everybody else. So what is this about??? Information. All of us are on-line (ehhrm, obviously. If you are not sure if you are on-line, click on the MS-DOS prompt icon, and type Format C: answer "Yes" to any questions it asks. If you are using a MAC (and since I don't know what this translates to for the MAC), just throw it out a window on the fifth floor). So as I was saying, we are all on-line, and every one of us has discovered something cool or some really useful information. Not information like, "Did you know a rat has four legs???", I'm talking about stuff like: Did you ever get on a web page and either saw/heard a graphic, sound, or midi that you wanted for some various reason? Most of the time, you can't get at the file directly. Such as a background midi, an auto-played .WAV, or CGI script. If you know the directory and filename (If you view the HTML source, this makes it very simple), just put it in as the URL. i.e. The page you are looking at is They play a cool Midi in the background that you want, but there is no button to D/L it. You look at the HTML source and see that the .mid file is loaded like this: so now to D/L it, you type into the address bar and it'll bring up a D/L dialog box. This works for all sorts of stuff, even Java protected graphics. *** Note : This will work in Internet Explorer. Netscape did it stupidly, it opens these files in another window. This is fine if you want to control (meaning it will open a new window with the play, rew, stop, volume control etc. window) the midi file or wav file, but it doesn't let you download it using the above steps. If the file is in a different directory than the page you are looking at, it's just a matter of adding the correct directories before the filename (easy to determine from looking at how the file is loaded in the HTML source.) ______________________________________________________________________ Right now this is a moderated mailing list (meaning I control the content. You send your cool info to me, and I will send it to everyone else. Just call me a megalomaniac), the reason I did this is so that everybody doesn't get like ten million messages from all the different people on this list with stuff that doesn't really belong on the VBOK mailing list. The four legged rat comes to mind. So, once I think that everybody has a good idea of what this list is about, it will become unmoderated (what you post/e-mail to the list will be automatically sent to everybody). Well, that concludes this issue. Have fun. Leif Gregory Copyright (c) 1998 by Leif Gregory. All rights reserved. You may share this copy of the VBOK newsletter with others as long as it is reprinted/resent in it's entirety to include this copyright notice. If you've received this edition of the VBOK newsletter from a friend or colleague and wish to start receiving your own copies, then click the below link and send the generated e-mail message. Virtual Book Of Knowledge (VBOK) VBOK Editor VBOK Homepage Unsubscribe Back-Edition Titles