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Re: [ECS] # of characters in a text string hutchins.ta.pg.com Mon, 1 Mar 1999 07:38:34 -0500

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Thanks Mark, worked great!

Tom




From: Mark Gilmore <omnip@usit.net> on 02/27/99 06:33 PM

Please respond to ecs-list@netbloc.com

To:   ecs-list@netbloc.com
cc:    (bcc: Thomas Hutchins-TA/PGI)
Subject:  Re: [ECS] # of characters in a text string




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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