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- PURPOSE
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- Convert NCSA MOSAIC HOT lists to NETSCAPE HTML Bookmark files.
- Do NOT use on the MOSAIC.INI file. If the URL hotlist is
- kept in the MOSAIC.INI file, the MENU information CAN be cut
- out of the MOSAIC.INI file, pasted in a new file, and then
- the new file CAN be processed. The program must be run from
- DOS or a DOS Shell from within Windows.
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- HOW TO
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- Step:
-
- 0. From Windows shell to DOS.
-
- 1. Run ncsa2net.exe at the command prompt using the following
- syntax without the quotes:
- "ncsa2net boeing.hot > nboeing.htm"
-
- NOTE: the '>' output redirection character. This is necessary
- or else the output will simply go to the screen and the
- "nboeing.htm" file will NOT be created.
-
- The mosaic.hot file is what ever hot list file you made
- with Mosaic. Mosaic is packaged with the file "default.hot"
- and this may be the file you are using. The file is found in
- the directory Mosaic is in.
-
- 2. Move the resulting "nboeing.htm" file to the NETSCAPE directory.
-
- 3. In the NETSCAPE menu system, navigate to the menu selection
- "Import". The sequence is; Bookmarks -> View Bookmarks.. ->
- File -> Import.
-
- 4. Select the "nboeing.htm" file you created with ncsa2net.exe and
- say "OK".
-
- That's all there is to it! You can now delete the "nboeing.htm" file and
- the contents of this ZIP file.
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- CONTENTS, PROGRAM STATUS & DISTRIBUTION
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- ncsa2net.c C Source for program.
- ncsa2net.exe DOS program.
- readme.txt THIS FILE.
- changes.txt What's new in the program.
- file_id.diz BBS index file.
- makefile Borland Turbo C makefile for DOS
- makefile.unx gcc makefile for UNIX
- mosaicv1.hot Mosaic v1.x HOT list sample file.
- boeing.hot Mosaic v2.x HOT list sample file.
-
- This is a FREE program. Freely distribute this archive!
- The C source is portable to UNIX machines.
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- AUTHOR
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- C Source written by Kevin Georgison.
- 105 Antrim Rd, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- http://www.mbnet.mb.ca/~georgkev
- georgkev@mbnet.mb.ca
- ljs263@freenet.mb.ca
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- PROGRAM CAPABILITIES & KNOWN BUGS
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- The ncsa2net.exe program will preserve the NCSA Mosaic HOT list menu
- structure. The NCSA Mosaic HOT list can have a maximum menu tree
- structure of 64 levels deep. The number of menus are unlimited. Any
- submenu MUST follow the menu it is contained in.
-
- eg.
-
- User Menu 3 is a submenu (Item1) of User Menu 0 and User Menu 3 follows
- User Menu 0.
-
- [User Menu0]
- Menu_Name=Starting Points
- Menu_Type=TOPLEVEL
- Item0=Starting Points Document,http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/StartingPoints.html
- Item1=MENU,UserMenu3
- .
- .
- .
- [User Menu3]
- Menu_Name=Home Pages
- Item0=The University of Illinois,http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/UofI_intro.html
- .
- .
- .
-
- If a submenu precedes the menu it is contained in, the submenu will be
- processed as a "root level" menu and be excluded from the menu it should
- have been contained in. The menu structure of the NCSA MOSAIC HOT list
- (boeing.hot) will not have been fully preserved in the new NETSCAPE
- bookmark file (nboeing.htm) but the resulting NETSCAPE bookmark file
- (nboeing.htm) can still be imported into the NETSCAPE book mark file
- (bookmark.htm).
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