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Re: [ECS] # of characters in a text string Mark Gilmore Sat, 27 Feb 1999 15:33:06 -0800

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Tom, the "{"'s are not required.
Make a batch file (.BAT) with the WPDL command
and execute it instead.

> Tom Hutchins wrote:
> 
> All,
> I'm trying to set up WPDL to download weather forecasts. Problem is
> when I do the following:
> 
> IF DOWNLOADING A WEB PAGE:
>   Set a Text Item to EXECUTE/NW, where the Text-Line for
>   that Item defines the command:
> 
>    WPDL {url} {file}
> 
>   where:
>    {url}  is the URL to download
>    {file} is the file to write to (default = WPDL.TMP)
> 
> my url for the text weather page alone is 63 characters long so when I
> try to add WPDL at the beginning I get "ERROR text line>65
> characters". Is there some way to make the allowable # of characters
> larger or can I somehow define a string as the url and the just have
> "WPDL string"?
> 
> Also, are the {} required?
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Tom

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Mark Gilmore
Omnipotence (ECS Home Automation Software)
omnip@usit.net
http://www.usit.com/omnip

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