[TAG] Recording OpenCourseWare free lectures

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Mon Jun 21 03:17:36 MSD 2004


On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 03:31:24PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> My best guess is that the hard returns I'm speaking of are an artifact
> of the X11 copy-and-paste process.  That is, if I copy-and-paste a
> multiline, line-wrapped URL from an editor or text-pager into my Web
> browser's URL field, then I get hard returns within the pasted URL even
> though they were not present in the original.

Concur.  See my other reply.

> This was, you may recall, my major point about tinyurl -- and why I
> appreciate people using it for long URLs of transitory interest, despite
> knowing how to avoid the technopeasant "Your URL didn't work" problem.

Enabler.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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