[Coco] Boyle's HTML viewer...

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Roger Taylor <operator at coco3.com> wrote:
> At 04:47 PM 3/10/2010, you wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Roger Taylor <operator at coco3.com> wrote:
>> > At 01:19 PM 3/10/2010, you wrote:
>> >>
>> >> What's the syntax for Curtis Boyle's HTML viewer included on the extras
>> >> disk that comes with the Drivewire 4 beta?  'html filename.html'
>> >> doesn't
>> >> seem to work for me.  I get:
>> >> List of files to view:
>> >> ERROR #216
>> >>
>> >> even if I have an html file in the current directory, or specify a
>> >> complete path.
>> >>
>> >> JCE
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Curtis, does your viewer pull from over the wireless pak as well?
>> >  Perhaps
>> > CoCoNet's bitbanger routines, too?
>> > Can't wait to check it out.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> The viewer is supposed to strip out the text readable portions of an
>> html file.  I never got it to work either, but thought it would be
>> useful in combination with DriveWire's TCP/IP functions like our wget
>> utility which outputs the content of a URL to standard output.
>
>
> CoCoNet grabs web files and stores them on the specified mounted virtual
> disk, so it takes place on the PC real quick and then you can read it at
> your own pace using standard DOS commands.
>
> I was just wondering if Curtis was aware that CoCoNet is capable of grabbing
> HTML as well.
>

I don't think this utility would work with RSDOS disks, it is a
Basic09 program.  It predates any of the recent networking stuff by a
good bit of time. I included it on the extras disk without Curtis's
knowledge, hope that is OK.  Like I said, I never got it to work but
thought it might be useful to someone.

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