Re: hp - Agilent: "help us share your old manuals"

Winfield Hill <Winfield_member@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Remember the recent flap over Agilent's lawyer shutting down
> 'bama manuals (Boat Anchor Manual Archive)? Now they say,
> "help us share old manuals," and they're posting links to
> folks who share Acrobat scan files or sell CDs.
>
> http://www.home.agilent.com/cgi-bin/pub/agilent/library/cp_LibraryFAQDetail.jsp?
> NAV_ID=-536895978.0.00&LANGUAGE_CODE=eng&ID=1000002849%3Aepsg%3Afaq&OID=536895149
>
> Sheesh, what horrible URLs they use!

Yes, so long that it wrapped around and got corrupted for me!

I believe that this can be prevented if you enclose the URL in angle
brackets:

<http://www.home.agilent.com/cgi-bin/pub/agilent/library/cp_LibraryFAQDetail.jsp?NAV_ID=-536895978.0.00&LANGUAGE_CODE=eng&ID=1000002849%3Aepsg%3Afaq&OID=536895149>

Nice to see big companies get a clue, for once.


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John Devereux
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