Re: Impulse (was Re: star-command to fetch a web page)

2010-07-06 Thread cj
In article <97f3c63251@nails.ukonline.co.uk>, Jim Nagel wrote: > your notes on that page say you have replaced the old Impulse > module with the 32-bit version. Sorry chaps - I ended up uploading the 'wrong' zip file. The zip there now has the 32-bit module in a directory called 'module'.

Impulse (was Re: star-command to fetch a web page)

2010-07-06 Thread Jim Nagel
Chris Johnson wrote on 6 Jul: >> I have had a trawl through my hard drive and found some old >> documentation (in text or Impression format). If anyone would like a >> copy let me know (by private email). > I have now placed a copy at > http://www.chrisjohnson.plus.com/bits/index.html many tha

Re: star-command to fetch a web page

2010-07-06 Thread cj
In article <5132aa2cd7ch...@chris-johnson.org.uk>, cj wrote: > In article <5ee0a23251.old_coas...@old_coaster.yahoo.co.uk>, >Tony Moore wrote: > > but there is no manual, or help, to indicate how it is used. > I have had a trawl through my hard drive and found some old > documentation (in

Re: star-command to fetch a web page

2010-07-06 Thread cj
In article <5ee0a23251.old_coas...@old_coaster.yahoo.co.uk>, Tony Moore wrote: > but there is no manual, or help, to indicate how it is used. I have had a trawl through my hard drive and found some old documentation (in text or Impression format). If anyone would like a copy let me know (by pr

Re: star-command to fetch a web page

2010-07-06 Thread Tony Moore
On 4 Jul 2010, Jim Nagel wrote: [snip] > (Impulse, i now recall, is the Computer Concepts behind-the-scenes > protocol by which operations such as mailmerge are done. i'm curious > now to know what else it can do.) >From http://www.sinenomine.co.uk/software/ : http://www.sinenomine.co.uk/so

Re: star-command to fetch a web page

2010-07-06 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
On 4 Jul at 21:28, Tim Hill wrote: > In article <5c25af3151@nails.ukonline.co.uk>, Jim Nagel > wrote: > > [Snip] > > > (Impulse, i now recall, is the Computer Concepts behind-the-scenes > > protocol by which operations such as mailmerge are done. i'm > > curious now to know what else it c

Re: star-command to fetch a web page

2010-07-04 Thread Tim Hill
In article <5c25af3151@nails.ukonline.co.uk>, Jim Nagel wrote: [Snip] > (Impulse, i now recall, is the Computer Concepts behind-the-scenes > protocol by which operations such as mailmerge are done. i'm curious > now to know what else it can do.) I'm sure others will answer that but I was u

Re: star-command to fetch a web page

2010-07-04 Thread Jim Nagel
Jim Nagel wrote on 4 Jul: > my next problem: is there a system variable (or could i set one up) > that stores the contents of the clipboard? (which in this exercise > would contain a selection of text from another application). found it! i copied an unusual word in my Impression document to th

Re: star-command to fetch a web page

2010-07-04 Thread Jim Nagel
Steve Fryatt wrote on 4 Jul: > *URIDispatch ah, thanks, Steve. my next problem: is there a system variable (or could i set one up) that stores the contents of the clipboard? (which in this exercise would contain a selection of text from another application). maybe i should be asking this p

Re: star-command to fetch a web page

2010-07-04 Thread Tim Hill
In article , Jim Nagel wrote: > does there exist a command i can put in an obeyfile or type in a > taskwindow that would tell the browser to fetch a certain web page? > (and launch the browser if it's not already running?) > e.g. *heyfetch > i'm trying to set up a Keystroke to do this from a s

Re: star-command to fetch a web page

2010-07-04 Thread Steve Fryatt
On 4 Jul, Jim Nagel wrote in message : > does there exist a command i can put in an obeyfile or type in a > taskwindow that would tell the browser to fetch a certain web page? (and > launch the browser if it's not already running?) > > e.g. *heyfetch > > i'm trying to set up a Keystroke to

Re: star-command to fetch a web page

2010-07-04 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 4 Jul 2010 Jim Nagel wrote: > does there exist a command i can put in an obeyfile or type in a > taskwindow that would tell the browser to fetch a certain web page? > (and launch the browser if it's not already running?) > e.g. *heyfetch > i'm trying to set up a Keystroke to do this from

star-command to fetch a web page

2010-07-04 Thread Jim Nagel
does there exist a command i can put in an obeyfile or type in a taskwindow that would tell the browser to fetch a certain web page? (and launch the browser if it's not already running?) e.g. *heyfetch i'm trying to set up a Keystroke to do this from a selected bit in a textfile. *wget is o