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Re: Picky, Picky Web Posting
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Mon, 25 Jan 1999 10:38:35 GMT
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On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 00:00:02 GMT, cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com (Mike Stanley)
wrote:

If so, couldn't somebody whip up a simple little "cookie jar" program
to help people transport cookies from their work machines to their
home machines?  I know I find myself in John's position all the time,
with one machine remembering my stuff and the other not.

What you need is a little program called notepad. Or heck, vi or
emacs. (vi/emacs religious debates follow-ups go to
off-topic.debate..) copy the file cookies.txt (assuming netscape,
here) from your netscape dirtectory to a floppie. take home. then when
home, open both cokies.txt, the one from the floppy and your regular
one, next to eachother. Copy&paste the line starting .lugnet.com from
the floppy one to the regular one. Save. Voila.

HTH.

Jasper



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(...) Yep, that's the usual unix way. As complicated as possible. I know it can be done manually. I'm thinking it wouldn't be that big a deal to do it with as little effort as possible. In fact ... Nope, nothing in the Cookie and Cache Manager (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) I don't pay much attention to cookies, but it was my understanding that they are stored locally, on the user's machine. If so, couldn't somebody whip up a simple little "cookie jar" program to help people transport cookies from their work (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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