URLs Out! Version 1.0
Copyright Bill Reid, Dec 1995
breid@ebicom.net

Function Summary:

Program converts MS Internet Explorer Internet Shortcuts into a single 
HTML document, with some degree of control over the formatting.

Description:

When I began using MS Internet Explorer, I dutifully (and shortsightedly)
converted my BOOKMARK.HTM structure into the little .URL files that IE uses
for shortcuts to URLs and began using them exclusively.  After all, it was
neat the way they showed up in your Favorites menu.

Later when I had a need to share URLs with friends or add sites to a Web page
I found myself with an old bookmark file and a lot of work ahead of me in 
the form of cutting and pasting shortcuts.  Thanks, MS.

And so, this program.  URLs Out! takes a directory structure (C:\Windows\Favorites
by default) and steps through every subdirectory and file, searching for those
little shortcut files and clipping out the vital info.  When its search 
finishes, it writes out a neat little HTML bookmark file of your choice, using 
the directory names as headers and listing each URL below it as a hyperlink.  In
addition, if you are familiar with HTML coding you may press the "Advanced 
Options" button to fill in your own HTML tags to be "wrapped around" the headers 
and URLs.

Licence:

URLs Out! is offered as freeware.  This means that although I retain the
copyright to this program, you are free to use and distribute it without
making payment of any sort to me.  You are not licensed to resell the 
product by itself or as part of a larger package.

I would appreciate your comments by email.  Email is cheap enough that it
won't inconvenience you and I'd just like to know how many people actually 
got some use out of this program.

Support Policy:

As I receive no payment for this program, I guarantee no support of any
kind.  You may send questions via email, and I will attempt to answer 
them at my leisure, but use of this program in no way guarantees technical
support of any kind.

Disclaimer:

I do not guarantee (expressly or implied) that this program is suitable for
your use or free from bugs.  Every effort has been made to properly test it
for my own use, but this is not to be seen as a statement of quality.  You
use this program at your own risk; I will not be held responsible for any
losses incurred as a direct or indirect result of using this program.

Technical Notes for the Curious:

URLs Out! is programmed in Visual Basic 4.0  I use a standard directory-
recursing procedure and peek at every file in the processed directory.  If the
first line has the [InternetShortcut] tag that .URL files have, I strip off 
the first 4 characters of the next line (URL=) and save the rest.  I wrap
your basic HTML code around the various items and write it to a file via 
standard I/O.  Not a lot to this program, but it fills a need.  At the time
this was written, it's the only one of its kind that I know of.