Grinder Smith wrote: > Now, I did find a true anomally that I have not encountered ever, in over > ten years of WWW'ing: On the 'book' page, URL above, in the white text > pane, near the bottom, there is a hyperlink for "readme.txt". The URL > seems competent and consistent with others used nearby. > > > My usual open-in-new-window routine got me a flashing window! An > amusing trick for about two seconds. I hate Gates! I hate flashing! > You are welcome to your own beliefs. > > So, in my usual constant desperate WWW hacking necessitated by Gates' > constant incompetence, I just activated the hyperlink and let it destroy > the 'book' window's contents. Flashing. Don't blame Gates for the doings of McGraw-Hills's web site developers. > The thing does claim to be a hyperlink to a text file, not a Javascript, > too. This is weird, and I wonder whether it will repeat for me or for > anyotherbody - I wonder. Even though the link points to a readme.txt file, it's up to the server what to serve you. And in this case, it doesn't serve you a text file, it apparently serves you a redirect command, which then points to a file with again only a refresh command to itself. So you're stuck in a loop of automatic refreshments without end criterion :) -- and that with any reasonably HTTP/HTML compliant browser. No "Gates thing". BTW, if you really hate Gates and his browser, you can use Firefox, Mozilla or Opera (all free) and stop hating. It's better for your health :) And BTBTW, I don't know how or from where to get the real readme.txt file. Only those web site developers would know (/if/ they know what they are doing -- which doesn't seem likely :) Gerhard -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist