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Offline mlogans91

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Running .txt Files with Code in Them?
« on: March 30, 2008, 03:01:25 AM »
Title is pretty self-expanitority. If I have a .txt file with HTML or some other type of code in them, is it possible to run the code?
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Offline cool_walking_

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Re: Running .txt Files with Code in Them?
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2008, 03:50:19 AM »
Uh... no.

Code doesn't just magically run.  Someone has to have already coded an interpreter for that language, and to my knowledge, there are 0 interpreters available for Rockbox.

HTML isn't really "code" anyway (it doesn't "run"), it's a markup language, sort of like a document format.
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Offline Strife89

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Re: Running .txt Files with Code in Them?
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2008, 04:45:08 PM »
With that said, it would be interesting if Rockbox had something to read HTML files.

Hey, even you guys would benefit from having the manual readable on the player, right? ;)
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Offline Chronon

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Re: Running .txt Files with Code in Them?
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2008, 05:12:44 PM »
There's already a feature request for an HTML viewer (FS#2909).  There's also a patch (FS#7114) that strips out HTML tags and generates a text file that's viewable in Rockbox.  I have not tested it, so I can't comment on how useful that is.

I also found a forum topic where this idea is discussed: http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=8550.0.  
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