On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:45:45 -0700, Jim Wilkins wrote:
On Aug 30, 10:48Â*am, Jim Wilkins wrote: ...
http://www.amazon.com/Hand-Simple-Tu...s-Practice/dp/
0486264289/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220099472&sr=1-3

It worked when I copied both halves into the address bar separately.

I guess you are talking about how to deal with a URL that
is split across lines. The way I usually deal with URL's
like that is to ignore them and go on to the next post.

But if I actually want to see them I could highlight all
of the URL and paste it into firefox's address bar, then
delete extraneous characters. For example, if I highlighted
from "http:" through "=1-3" in the above and pasted it, the
address bar would look like it started off with " 048" (ie
the newline disappeared the first part) and I then could
put the cursor on the blank, press backspace 4 times, and
Enter to see the web page.

That's what I could do; what I actually do in such a case is
highlight all of the URL, then click a button for a script that
strips out newlines from selection and sends it off to firefox
to display. (In a case like the above I'd still have to delete
some extraneous characters in the address bar.)

-jiw