Sean Breheny wrote:

> BTW, as for recognizing URLs, I don't think it is based on the WWW
> portion, I think that most programs just look for http:// OR if they are
> more sophistocated, they look for http:// followed by a "." before any
> spaces. It would be a truly rare situation in any language to have
> something which had no spaces, began with http:// and contained at least
> one "."

My newsreader (Xnews) takes a simpler and (I think) more elegant
approach.  You can double-click anywhere in a message and Xnews will
attempt to execute the word that you clicked on.  Click on
www.microchip.com (trying to keep this PIC related), it calls up the
default browser (in my case Netscape) and takes you to the site.  Click
on the "more" and it brings up the DOS command "more" (OK, not too
useful in that case).  Click on the word "fdisk".....

--Matt