Posted by J.O. Aho on 08/19/07 11:37

greg_e@mail.com wrote:

> I basically just need a local page I can load in Firefox that will
> make Firefox act like notepad, where you can save a text area to a
> file, but I don't even need to be able to select the filename, like
> you can do with notepad - the filename can be hardcoded.

In the Mozilla.org browsers you can use XUL together with JavaScript to
do what you want, a simple search at Google gave the following llink:

http://www.captain.at/programming/xul/



> If there is no way to do this without setting up a server and
> installing Perl, etc. to process the script, what is the smallest &
> simplest server, and what is the smallest and simplest script
> processor?

If looking for the smallest simplest http server, then thttp,
http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/

For handling text, Perl may be the best language to use, otherwise php
is easy to learn and a lot more stable than visualbasic.


> I learned and used 'c' several years ago, but I don't even have a 'c'
> compiler now.

Poor excuse, you get one for free at http://gcc.gnu.org


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//Aho

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