james said:
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ok, great, let's go that way... now... one big reason for this exercise, for me, has been developing online versions of some of these tools. that's good because: 1. online versions have appeal, especially for some people. 2. some people really believe this job can't be done online. 3. online versions are a complement to my offline versions. 4. i can withdraw an online version of an app if/when i want. that fourth point is important to me, because --as you have undoubtedly surmised -- there are some people here who've made me an enemy, and i see no need to give them my tools, at least not in the ongoing way which an offline app provides. so i can throw up an online app that proves my point clearly, and then jerk it down so my enemies can't actually _use_ it... having said all of that, though, there are some times when it's just a whole lot better to use an offline version of a tool. this is one of those times. (since otherwise we're just chewing bandwidth downloading scans to your machine that you _already_have_ sitting there. it's far easier -- and much faster -- to use the local copies.) so let's go backchannel now, james, and do this task offline. -bowerbird