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How Can I Add a Line to the Top of a Text File?

June 30, 2005 Jun 30, 2005 06/30/05
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I add a line to the top of a text file?-- FT(image) (image) (image) Hey, FT. You know, at one point in his career Sir Arthur Conan Doyle actually killed off Sherlock Holmes, figuring he’d written everything anyone could ever write about the master detective. Public outcry soon made him change his mind...

How Can I Tell Whether a Web Page is Accessible?

February 22, 2005 Feb 22, 2005 02/22/05
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I tell whether or not a Web page is accessible?-- JW(image) (image) (image) Hey, JW. To tell you the truth, these are the kinds of questions we hate, questions where we don’t know the answer off the top of our heads but where it seems like there ought to be a way to do this. Sometimes in the world of ...

Can I Edit .INI Files Using a Script?

November 30, 2004 Nov 30, 2004 11/30/04
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! Can I edit.INI files using a script?-- MZ(image) (image) (image) Hey, MZ. Yes, you can edit .INI files (or any kind of text files, for that matter) using a script. The method you have to use might not be the most elegant process in the world, but it’ll work. And that’s all we really care about, right? Before...