Thanks for the tip, I found easily your download, and it appeared in my=20
Thunderbird Inbox. I researched my ISP's web site quite thoroughly, and=20
didn't find any reference to storage space available to me, other than=20
backup, which might cost. I thought there was space available. Will have=20
to check that out with support, another time. In the process of trying=20
to get the I2C running on a PIC at the moment. Wanted to research more,=20
before sending th issue to the group.

On 2/27/2011 6:27 PM, Olin Lathrop wrote:
> Carl Denk wrote:
>   =20
>> 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,
>>     =20
> I find that very hard to believe.  You may have to one-time turn on your =
web
> 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 nam=
e.
> That's how all their users each get private web space.  This is all norma=
l
> 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=
 to
> 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=
 on
> 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 th=
e
> URL.  In this case I put it in my TEMP subdirectory.  That's a place I pu=
t
> 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 wha=
t
> kind of file it is.  The file is at http://www.embedinc.com/temp/msg.xyzz=
y.
> It's just a text file, but your browser might not know that because of th=
e
> 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 line=
s
> 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.
>
>   =20
>> 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. :)
>>     =20
> I for one would object to receiving such private messages.
>
>
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