On 2008-05-03, Joseph Gwinn wrote:
In article ,
James Waldby wrote:
On Sat, 03 May 2008 04:07:16 +0000, DoN. Nichols wrote:
On 2008-05-02, Joseph Gwinn joegwinn@... wrote:
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http://books.google.com/books?id=Skd...lpg=RA8-PA36&d
q=gooseneck+tool+lathe&source=web&ots=edrQWKc6hu&s ig=QsKeq0Vn7zebOdjC5ydY
KtuqnkA&hl=en#PRA8-PA35,M1
Hmm ... I don't think that I'm going to bother cut-and-pasting
all three chunks of that URL. I know the tool anyway, and see them
occasionally on eBay auctions.
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The "Download PDF - 36.3M" link on that page fetches a pdf file
with 1100-odd scanned pages from what appear to be pamphlets #41
through 110 of Machinery's Reference Series, ca. 1908-1913.
That's right.
1122 pages worth of them :-)
Also, regarding cut-and-paste of broken-up URL's like that,
I usually highlight the whole mess, paste it into Firefox's
URL box, then delete the return characters to fix it, as
opposed to cutting and pasting three separate parts.
The cut&paste exercise is not necessary if the poster provided the start
and end brackets needed by the newsreader (or email client) to know
exactly what is the URL string.
I do provide those brackets, so when you see something like
"http://www.whatever.com/stuff", just click on it, even if it wrapped
to multiple lines. It's the and that do the job.
That only works in a newsreader which is designed and configured
to directly invoke a web brower -- or which is part of a web browser.
It does not work in mine, and that is the way I want it -- so a
malicious URL can't be accessed without my active participation. And
yes, I *have* seen malicious URLS in usenet articles.
The exception is when the URL is in a quoted message, and so extra quote
mark characters have been inserted.
Or -- when you are using a system which is not configured to do
it, as I am. I *think* that I could configure this newsreader (slrn) to
do it, but I will not.
Enjoy,
DoN.
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