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# .ebrc: the configuration file for edbrowse (version 2.2 or above)
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# This is a sample file.
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# This file contains passwords - make sure it is not readable by others.
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# (Of course this public file has no real passwords, but yours will.)
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# First the email accounts; I have several.
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# My primary account, from my ISP.
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# Access this account via -m1.
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# The next account is -m2, and so on.
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# The pop3 server and the smtp server, they need not be the same.
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inserver = mail.comcast.net
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outserver = smtp.comcast.net
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# Who is this mail from? Your name, and a reply address.
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# Note, it is now illegal to forge email, so make sure your name
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# is really yours, or your business, and make sure the reply address
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# is one of your email accounts, or is forwarded to you.
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reply = kdahlke189603@comcast.net
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# My personal email account.
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# This is a subaccount under my primary ISP account.
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inserver = mail.comcast.net
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outserver = smtp.comcast.net
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# When I send mail out, this is the default account.
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reply = eklhad@comcast.net
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# I check on it once in a while, with her permission of course.
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inserver = mail.comcast.net
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outserver = smtp.comcast.net
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reply = kdwife@comcast.net
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# The shortcut eyemail is defined in /etc/hosts.
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# You can do it this way, or use a full domain name,
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# as I did with comcast.
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login = karl.dahlke@my-work-domain.com
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reply = karl.dahlke@my-work-domain.com
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# Mail that looks like it came from my other web sites.
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# Let's start with the math site.
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inserver = mail.comcast.net
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outserver = mail.comcast.net
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# All MathReference email is forwarded to me.
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reply = webmaster@mathreference.com
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inserver = mail.comcast.net
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outserver = mail.comcast.net
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# My wife and I work on this site together.
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from = Karl and Wendy Dahlke
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reply = webmaster@scrapsayings.com
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# An email associated with my private domain, independent of my ISP
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# This is forwarded to my ISP.
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inserver = mail.comcast.net
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outserver = mail.comcast.net
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reply = eklhad@comcast.net
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# That's all the mail accounts.
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# Here is my address book.
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# Format is alias:email:other fields.
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adbook=/home/eklhad/outside/adbook
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# Move to this directory when fetching mail.
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maildir = /home/eklhad/mbox
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# ip addresses on the blacklist
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ipblack=/home/eklhad/outside/ipblack
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# The cookie jar - where we store the http cookies.
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# This file contains passwords, make sure it is 0600.
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# Do not hand edit this file, unless you know what you are doing!
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jar = /home/eklhad/outside/cookies
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# file of ssl certificates
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# If you put your file here, it will be shared with lynx, and perhaps other browsers.
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certfile = /etc/ssl/cert.pem
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# wait 30 seconds for a response from a web server
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# wait 3 minutes for a response from a mail server
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# Write spam messages here. I use a file in my trash bin,
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# so I know it gets cleaned out every week.
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spamcan = /home/eklhad/.Trash/spamcan
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# Redirect mail based on the sender, or the destination account.
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fred flintstone > fredmail
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fred.flintstone@bedrock.us > fredmail
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support@my-side-business.com > support
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sales@my-side-business.com > sales
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@my-side-business.com > business
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me@my-regular-dayjob.com > work
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# Describe the mime types and the programs to run them.
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# For obvious reasons, I'm only worried about the audio -
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# though there may be some application files that could be meaningfully processed.
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desc = audio file in a wave format
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# The star is replaced with the suffix at runtime
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program = play -t * -
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desc = audio file in mp3 format
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#program = mpg123 -q -
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# The above line works, but can be inconvenient, depending on the player.
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# Some mp3 players don't work as well
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# when they get their input from a pipe.
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# When it comes from a file, they respond better to keyboard commands,
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# to pause, back up, etc.
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# So I invented a special % character at the end,
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# which becomes a temp file with the proper suffix.
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program = mpg123 -q %
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# And we could have done the same with play above.
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# Then you wouldn't need the -t *
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# because the temp file has the right suffix, and play understands.
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# the < forces it to be a stream, hence the url is passed to the program
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type = <audio/x-pn-realaudio
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desc = streaming audio
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# Database access - specify the database, login, and password.
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database = retail,mylogin,mypassword
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# Sections of the customers table in the retail database.
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# See the edbrowse documentation for more details.
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# cnm is my cryptic shorthand for customer name
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# I want to be cryptic here, cause I'm going to be typing this a lot.
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cols = custnum,firstname,lastname
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# Specify the primary key, in this case, the first column selected.
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# All I care about here is customer and birthdate.
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cols = birthdate,custnum
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# Plenty of sites use javascript solely for visual effect.
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# And this javascript tends to be complicated, which means I usually
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# don't parse it properly, and you get lots of annoying errors.
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# You can disable it per site.
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# Note, better to say space.com, instead of www.space.com,
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# unless there is a foo.space.com where you really need the javascript.
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# Every time you fetch a web page from the internet,
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# your browser identifies itself to the host.
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# This is done automatically.
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# Edbrose identifies itself as "edbrowse/2.1.3",
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# where the number after the slash indicates the current version of edbrowse.
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# All well and good, but some websites have no respect for edbrowse,
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# or lynx for that matter.
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# They won't let you in the door unless you look like Explorere or Netscape.
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# Clickbank.com, a major credit card processor, is one example.
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# So what do we do? We lie!
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# You can specify different agents in this config file,
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# and activate them with the `ua' (user agent) command.
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# With the following lines in your config file,
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# you can type ua1 to pretend to bee lynx, and ua2 to pretend to be Mozilla.
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# Type ua0 to resurrect the standard edbrowse identification.
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agent = Lynx/2.8.4rel.1 libwww-FM/2.14
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agent = Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)
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# Ok, we're ready to write our first script.
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# Let's start out with something simple.
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# undos and unword a file.
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# No doubt a Windows expert could help me with the latter.
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# Strip out nonascii stuff.
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# Sorry to be so English-centric.
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# This will mess you up if you're reading a Spanish word document,
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# and you lose your nonascii letters.
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,s/[\0-\11\13\14\16-\37\200-\377]//g
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# After the above, there'll be lots of blank lines.
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# Break lines at return boundaries.
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# Strip off trailing junk.
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# How about a function to access google.
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# That's something everybody does all the time.
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# I went to the home page, put in some keywords, set db2,
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# and pressed search.
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# That gave me the url.
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# Here it is, with ~0 embedded.
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# ~0 stands for all the arguments, in other words, the rest of the line.
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# So <gg elephants tigers will call up google,
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# looking for "elephants tigers".
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b www.google.com/search?q=~0&hl=n&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
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# Ok, we got the web page back.
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# How do we know? Go back and look at the function line.
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# The + means stop if there are any errors.
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# We're still here, so I guess there weren't any errors.
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# Google has returned its results.
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# But there's lots of text that I don't care to read.
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# So I wrote a google cleanup function.
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# It's ok that this function hasn't been defined yet;
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# forward references are allowed.
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# The google cleanup function.
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# This is called when you access google (above),
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# but you may want to call it again, when you ask for the next ten results,
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# and the next ten results, etc.
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# That's why I made it a separate function.
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# Look at the function definition and note the : instead of +
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# This means the function will march on, even if there are errors.
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# This lets us delete certain lines, if they are there.
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# And if they're not there, we get an error, and march on.
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# get rid of pdf warnings
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g/^Your browser may not have a PDF reader available.$/d
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g/^{Similar pages}$/d
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# trailing lines, after "search next", can go away
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/^{search Next}$/+,$d
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# initial lines and stats can go away
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1,/Search took [\d.]+ seconds/d
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# move the "did you mean" line to the end; we need to keep this one
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/^Did you mean:$/,/^Did you mean:$/+2m$
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# more stuff at the start that we don't need
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1,/^Categor[iesy]+: *|/d
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1,/{See your message here...}/d
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1,/^|Sponsored Link$/d
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# First two nonblank lines and first blank line can go away
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# put the "did you mean" line back to the top, if it's there
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/^Did you mean:$/,$m0
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# mariam-webster dictionary lookup
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# You can't see it, unless you list the line, but there is
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# a control a between dictionary and book.
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# This indicates post method, rather than get method.
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b www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionarybook=Dictionary&va=~1
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/^{Get the Word of the Day/,$d
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1,/^Click on the Collegiate Thesaurus tab to look up the current word/+2d
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1,/^One entry found for/+d
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1,/^Suggestions for/-d
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# Clean up an article from www.space.com.
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# Now you're ready for the big time.
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# if(*) means proceed if the previous command succeeded.
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# if(?) means proceed if the previous command failed.
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# Get it ... ? as in the question mark of an error.
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# Similarly for while(*), until(*), etc.
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# There is also a loop(n) construct, to repeat something n times.
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# stuff at the end can go
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/^{Add these headlines to your site}$/,$d
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# All the stuff at the top, before the word posted, can go
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# now the top line is the date, don't need it
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# We don't care about the section called images, which is inserted
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# after the first paragraph of the article.
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/^| *Images\|More Stories$/d
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# delete some sections before this line, and after it.
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?^|SCIENCE TUESDAY\||TECH WEDNESDAY$?,-d
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.,/{>>Uplink your views}/d
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.,/^| *More Stories$/d
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.,/^| *Related SPACE.com STORIES$/d
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.,/^| *Related Links$/d
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# Now print the article
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