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Mon, 24 Jun 2002 20:13:34 -0400
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Barbara Rhodes" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 7:27 PM
Subject: [peeps-talk] Fw: [JFWlite] FireFly - A music file sharing program


> Hi all --
>
> Thought this might be of interest to some of you.
>
> Barb
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Louise" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 9:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [JFWlite] FireFly - A music file sharing program
>
>
> Does this program contain any spyware like other file sharing programs do?
> Louise
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Debbie Scales <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 6:50 AM
> Subject: [JFWlite] FireFly - A music file sharing program
>
>
> > I know people are always looking for music file sharing programs and
> someone
> > sent me one that I thought I would let you know about.  It's called
> FireFly.
> > You can download it and some basic scripts from the JFWLite programs
page.
> >
> > You run the firefly10.exe to install the program.  The scripts are self
> > extracting and set to install to c:\jaws402\settings\enu, but you can
> change
> > that path if you are using a different version of Jaws.  Then run the
> > program, you are in the search edit field.  Type your search and enter.
> If
> > you tab once from the search field, you will find different control tabs
> for
> > things like uploads, downloads, and one page for each search window you
> have
> > open.  But the only way to close a search page is to find a close
graphic
> > with the jaws cursor that reads as web dings XXX where XXX is a number.
> So
> > I wrote a script and added a hotkey of alt C to close a search if you
are
> in
> > the
> > listview of search results for a search.  Now the problem  is that I had
> > the person who sent me this program and one other person try the scripts
> and
> > the alt C didn't work.  That web dings symbol seems to have a different
> > number for each person's machine.   But really if you can label
> > that webdings close symbol yourself and label it what I did, then
> hopefully
> > the scripts will work for you too.  They did for the people I had try
the
> > scripts.  If you find that web dings symbol for the
> > search window, press insert G and label it closesearch.  Just like that,
> one
> > word, all lower case, closesearch.  If the alt C still doesn't work for
> you,
> > you will need to use your jaws cursor and click on the web dings symbol
to
> > close a search window.  But that isn't a show stopper, even if you leave
> all
> > the search windows open it won't hurt anything.  Another hint, you can
> press
> > the windows application key in listviews to bring up the context menu
for
> > choices such as download on search results to download a song.
Downloads
> go
> > to C:\My Downloads.  Partial downloads go to C:\Program
> > Files\FireFly\Partial Downloads and it appears you can resume a download
> > from the context menu on the download screen.  Now I really don't spend
> > much time downloading things anymore, so I didn't spend much time on
this
> > program, but I just thought I'd let you try it for yourself.  One thing
is
> > that often it seems it takes a long time before it returns the search
> > results, and I have even had times when I ran it and didn't get any
search
> > results.  I will let you try it and if we find it isn't worth it, I'll
> take
> > it off JFWLite in a week or so.
> > Debbie
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Visit the JFWLite web page at
> > http://www.jfwlite.com/
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