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- URLs Out! Version 1.0
- Copyright Bill Reid, Dec 1995
- breid@ebicom.net
-
- Function Summary:
-
- Program converts MS Internet Explorer Internet Shortcuts into a single
- HTML document, with some degree of control over the formatting.
-
- Description:
-
- When I began using MS Internet Explorer, I dutifully (and shortsightedly)
- converted my BOOKMARK.HTM structure into the little .URL files that IE uses
- for shortcuts to URLs and began using them exclusively. After all, it was
- neat the way they showed up in your Favorites menu.
-
- Later when I had a need to share URLs with friends or add sites to a Web page
- I found myself with an old bookmark file and a lot of work ahead of me in
- the form of cutting and pasting shortcuts. Thanks, MS.
-
- And so, this program. URLs Out! takes a directory structure (C:\Windows\Favorites
- by default) and steps through every subdirectory and file, searching for those
- little shortcut files and clipping out the vital info. When its search
- finishes, it writes out a neat little HTML bookmark file of your choice, using
- the directory names as headers and listing each URL below it as a hyperlink. In
- addition, if you are familiar with HTML coding you may press the "Advanced
- Options" button to fill in your own HTML tags to be "wrapped around" the headers
- and URLs.
-
- Licence:
-
- URLs Out! is offered as freeware. This means that although I retain the
- copyright to this program, you are free to use and distribute it without
- making payment of any sort to me. You are not licensed to resell the
- product by itself or as part of a larger package.
-
- I would appreciate your comments by email. Email is cheap enough that it
- won't inconvenience you and I'd just like to know how many people actually
- got some use out of this program.
-
- Support Policy:
-
- As I receive no payment for this program, I guarantee no support of any
- kind. You may send questions via email, and I will attempt to answer
- them at my leisure, but use of this program in no way guarantees technical
- support of any kind.
-
- Disclaimer:
-
- I do not guarantee (expressly or implied) that this program is suitable for
- your use or free from bugs. Every effort has been made to properly test it
- for my own use, but this is not to be seen as a statement of quality. You
- use this program at your own risk; I will not be held responsible for any
- losses incurred as a direct or indirect result of using this program.
-
- Technical Notes for the Curious:
-
- URLs Out! is programmed in Visual Basic 4.0 I use a standard directory-
- recursing procedure and peek at every file in the processed directory. If the
- first line has the [InternetShortcut] tag that .URL files have, I strip off
- the first 4 characters of the next line (URL=) and save the rest. I wrap
- your basic HTML code around the various items and write it to a file via
- standard I/O. Not a lot to this program, but it fills a need. At the time
- this was written, it's the only one of its kind that I know of.