| Harvesting Internet Raw Materials:
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Text to Disk
| Objective Task |
You have found a web page
of which you need the entire text saved to disk. Examples might be the Declaration
of Independence or A Tale of Two Cities. You may be providing disk copies so that
your students can easily annotate the document or conduct string searches of the text.
| Note: |
Be aware that when using
this technique, you will only be saving the text of the web page. The resulting file
will be a text or ASCII file without images and other multimedia. |
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| Step 1 |
Load the web page into your
browser. |
| Step 2 |
Pull down the File
menu and select Save as... |
| Step 3 |
A standard file dialog box
will appear, standard to Windows 3.x, 95, or Mac OS. Use the dialog box to find a
logical location on your disk(s) to save the file. 
Enter a filename for the file with ".txt" as the file
extension. Make sure that the Save as type: section is set
to Plain Text (*.txt). |
| Step 4 |
Your browser will save the
file to the target location on your disk as a text file. You should be able to load
this file into any word processor and most web editors. |
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