Hi! Ed,

In a message to Mark Lewis you wrote:

 EV> IIRC, I read something lately about using VideoLan (VLC media
 EV> player), you can Save the video that you're watching.

I tried it in my Puppy vBox last night, though it has only an ancient
version of VLC.  There wasn't a save option anywhere.  In fact, VLC
couldn't display the on-line video at all, which doesn't surprise me as
I've seen a warning notice from YouTube about not *supporting*, what it
calls, ancient browsers; VLC read the weblink but displayed nothing besides
an alternating play/pause/play/[repeat sequence]/... indicator on the menu
line, where the play button is located.

 EV> That was way back when I was using Netscape 2 or 3 with Win 3.1 .

So did we.  It was a horse's patoosh.  That was in the dial-up days, using
ancient software.  I'm glad to see they're gone & past.

 EV> So I went to Netscapes Cookie directory and took a look for some
 EV> pages with the extension .JPG that were stored about that time and 
 EV> Copied them (I maybe had to change the attrib to READ??), but I got 
 EV> to save what I wanted to save from their web pages.

In FF, you can go to Tools->Page Info ([Ctrl]+I) and access a page's
media.  (It's really neat for 'restricted' graphics files that can't be
saved from the page display.)  It even has a save option.  :)

 EV> Thinking about that, I'd suppose those videos would be where FF put
 EV> its Cookies, but I can't remember if FF has a CACHE directory like NS 
 EV> did. (I think the sub-directory was called CACHE)

The cache is major part of the users' Mozilla directory structure.  It's
not worth bothering about.  Windows' temp directory could be more
productive.  :)

Cheers,
Paul.

... Nobody can be just like me.  Even I have trouble.
--- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox