On Sun, 4 Mar 2012, Randy Kramer wrote:

> On Sunday 04 March 2012 10:31:41 am Lisi wrote:
> > On Sunday 04 March 2012 12:51:17 Randy Kramer wrote:
> > > The only problem is the aggravating yahoo URLs that are very long--I just
> > > checked one that is 537 characters long.  So, far, with middle mouse
> > > button copying, I am not able to copy that from the one line display at
> > > the bottom of the screen.  (I suspect it can't be done.)
> >
> > I find that I can do it by just continuing to run the mouse over the link
> > with the left button depressed, until it comes to a halt against the
> > barrier of the end of the URL.
> 
> Thanks, but I can't seem to get that to work.
> 
> And, apparently I mispoke / mistyped--I've apparently been using the left 
> mouse button to attempt to copy the URL at the bottom of the screen all 
> along, not the middle mouse button.
> 
> Randy Kramer
> 
> 
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Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net>
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Try opening up the url with lynx first.  next hit the "=" key and you'll 
bring up a display of information about the page.  Near the bottom of that 
display will be your url.  There will be two url: entries on that page, 
you want the second one of them.


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