FW: Confirm Exit From MAIN MENU

[John Esak]

Forgot to forward this to the list. 

-----Original Message-----
From: John Esak [mailto:john at valar.com] 
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 6:19 PM
To: 'Jean-Pierre A. Radley'
Subject: RE: Confirm Exit From MAIN MENU

Good, because I really can not get to my copy of the stuff Bob sent me years
ago.

As for your question.  Have you ever tried putting a file like "readone" on
your ftp site and ask people to go to a direct link to it with their
browser?  All that would happen is the file would try to open in a text
reader... Lots of garbage on the screen.  The little trick I used will pop
up a RUN or SAVE dialog and if they press SAVE, they'll get a browse of
their filesystem... They put the file there, remove the superfluous .iso and
they're ready to go. It just makes things a little easier.

Maybe I should have explained that though.  But most of the people I send
links to know this....

John

P.S. If anyone askf for the source for readone, I'll direct them to you...
It is a nifty and very useful program.  We could reanme it "bob"... :-) 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.co
m] On Behalf Of Jean-Pierre A. Radley
> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 4:10 PM
> To: FilePro Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Confirm Exit From MAIN MENU
> 
> John Esak propounded (on Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 01:42:22PM -0400):
> |  
> | Well, for all those who will read this thread... I've 
> changed the name...
> | You can just put this in your browser now....
> | 
> | 
> | http://www.valar.com/readone.iso
> | 
> | And it will ask if you want to SAVE or Run the file.  
> Obviously, SAVE it
> | somewhere and then remove the .iso extension so the file is 
> just called
> | "readone".
> 
> Uh, why call it xxx.iso when it isn't an ISO file, and when the
> extension should be ditched after downloading?
> 
> | As for Linux, you're on your own, same with Windows.  I 
> thought I had the
> | source, but it is on a machine I no longer have access to.  
> Sorry.  JP and
> | Bob were good friends, maybe he has a copy of the source.
> | 
> | John
> | 
> 
> I might, yeah...
> 
> -- 
> JP
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