[Oberon] ? How2fetch http://--.tar.gz & V24

[John Drake]

--- eas-lab at absamail.co.za wrote:
> 
> > 2. How would I use n-o to fetch http://--.tar.gz ?
> 
> "Peter Easthope"  wrote:
> > From memory (probably partly wrong) select the URI
> of the 
> > file you want and execute HyperDocTools.Fetch
> <LocalName> ~.
> 
> Apparently NOT.
> *   HyperDocs.Tool reads:
> HyperDocTools.Fetch Local.Doc ~	Download the
> selected link to Local.Doc.
> ** I don't want 'local', I want from remote side of
> the world,
> ** I don't want 'doc', I want a binary file.
> 
> Even with  <LocalName> available,
>    HyperDocTools.Fetch PICscope.html ~
> shows nothing nor System.Log trace !
> Yet Desktops.OpenDoc "PICscope.html"  shows
> 'goods-stuff'.
> 
> I would susupect that HyperDocTools.Obj is dud,
> except that I regularly use
> HyperDocTools.LinkIndex *
> 
> Re. not being able to fetch via Desktops.OpenDoc
> "*.tar.gz",
> whereas .doc, .wpd, .pdf etc are fetchable: my first
> guess
> is that the code made a simplistic but false
> assumption
> which worked OK up till now (like the false
> assumption
> that loginID and passwords would not use "@"), that
> "."
> would be followed by the 'file-extension' which has
> no
> further ".".

That's not possible as Oberon has accepted multiple
file extensions since it's inception.

Regards,

John M. Drake



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