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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
Email: harawitz@brooknorth.bedford.ns.ca
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WHAT IS "URL Grabber"?
URL Grabber is a small floating tool bar that resides in a
corner of your MS Windows desktop.
It enables you to easily 'grab' and store URLs from news
groups, Email messages and other sources, as you are
reading them.
With a 'click' of a mouse, URL Grabber will automatically
convert your collection of URLs to active WWW links
on an HTML page.
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.
HOW TO USE URL GRABBER
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.
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.
Use your application's "Copy" (or equivalent) function to
copy the selected URL to the clipboard.
Next, click URL Grabber's "Paste" button.
A small dialog box, displaying the selected URL, will
appear. You can edit it if necessary.
Optionally, you can add a comment or description which
will appear as the "Clickable" text when a browser page is
created.
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.
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.
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.
The file is automatically updated after any entries or
changes are made.
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.
AUTOMATICALLY CREATE A BROWSER PAGE
After collecting one or more URLs, you can at any time
have URL Grabber automatically create a browser page
by clicking the "Create..." button.
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.
DISPLAY YOUR FILE WITH YOUR BROWSER
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.
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.
You can change browsers at any time by clicking the
"Choose browser..." button.
That's all there is to it!