Carl Denk wrote:
> Not really, as I understand, for me to use the web space provided by
> my ISP, I would need to set up a web page,

I find that very hard to believe.  You may have to one-time turn on your we=
b
site or somehow tell your ISP you are going to use it.  Once you turn it on=
,
or more likely by default, you have space where you can plunk files and
their server will serve them.  The URL will usually contain your user name.
That's how all their users each get private web space.  This is all normal
and basic stuff that your ISP probably has a web page describing or tech
support can tell you about.

There should be no need for any "web pages" just to dump files for others t=
o
see.  Copy whatever file you want to make publicly available to your web
site directory, then tell people the URL for that specific file.  If it's
not a file type the web browser understands, then it will usually ask you
what application you want to "open" it with, or where you want to save it o=
n
your local disk.

For example, I posted links to some pictures earlier today.  Note the URL
http://www.embedinc.com/temp/a3.jpg isn't a HTML file.  It's just a JPG.
Since JPG is a file type every browser understands, it should display
natively.  All I did was copy the JPG file to my web site and give you the
URL.  In this case I put it in my TEMP subdirectory.  That's a place I put
temporary files, with the name intending to give you a hint that you
shouldn't expect to find the file there for very long.

Here is a example.  I saved your message that I'm replying to into a text
file but gave it the suffix ".xyzzy" so that your browser won't guess what
kind of file it is.  The file is at http://www.embedinc.com/temp/msg.xyzzy.
It's just a text file, but your browser might not know that because of the
strange file name suffix.  If it doesn't show the file directly, open it
with any text editor and you should be able to see its contents.  I just
tried it with IE, and to my surprise it showed it as a text file natively.
Maybe it scans the file and if it finds things that look like end of lines
it displays it as a text file.  Huh, I didn't know that.

In any case, the point is no "web" pages were abused.  I gave you URLs to
raw files and you can access them directly or download them to your disk
with a browser.

> For the most part many of these questions, are answered by a few
> people.
> For those people interested in real help, they could request a private
> message with the attachments. I for one, would not object to sending a
> half dozen messages to get some good help. :)

I for one would object to receiving such private messages.


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