URLtoIE - easily transfer 'URLs' via LanMan to a PC
John Williams
> I have added this program, URLtoIE, to my software pages in the hope
> someone else may find it useful as well.
>
> What it does is to take a text file, an Ant URL file, or an Acorn URI
> file, and extract the URL from it.
>
> It then prepends this with what Internet Explorer would expect to find in
> a simple 'internet shortcut', and allows you to save the result by
> drag-and-drop anywhere you like, but particularly into a LanMan filer
> window - where it will become an IE shortcut file.
>
> Its particular use might be to drag a URL from the URL bar of NetSurf to
> its icon, and then drag the resulting Save icon directly to a LanMan
> filer window. This can be useful where you have attempted to view a page
> in NetSurf, but difficulties result and you want to try it in Internet
> Explorer.
The program is available from:
http://irene.williams.free.fr/software/urltoie
I have removed the feature which caused the program to disappear from the
iconbar if there was no mount connected in LanMan when a file was dragged
to the iconbar icon.
John
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