Can Webinator Write Results in a frame?

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Can Webinator Write Results in a frame?

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Dear Friends,

I've installed free Webinator on a Windows NT 4.0 // IIS 4.0 system and it
is super! Everything is running perfectly.

I have tinkered with modifying the search output a bit and that is cool too.
But here's a little difficulty. Couldn't find anything in the Q&A archives
that spoke directly to this.

I have a WWW page setup like this:

a top frame (logo and junk)
a bottom frame, which itself contains:
frame A (Webinator search blank)
frame B (links and junk)

Now if somebody uses the Webinator, I want the results to pour into the
entire bottom frame, not just frame B.

If we were just dealing with HTML alone, it is not hard to do this. You
just name the bottom frame "Fred" and have links from frame A specify <A
HREF="blah.htm" TARGET="Fred"> and no problem. Frame B gets flushed away.

So, is there a way to specify a "TARGET" for Webinator's output? Or if not,
is there some other way to achieve the effect I want (search blank on the
initial page, with stuff above and below it, but then taking over the whole
bottom portion of the page once a search is done)?

Thanks in advance for any advice you might have.

Cheers,


Hanno T. Beck
Banneker Center for Economic Justice
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Can Webinator Write Results in a frame?

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Just edit the file called ~htdocs/webinator/search.

find the function <a name=result> and edit the line that says:
"<A HREF="$Url">". Change it to say: "<A TARGET=FRAMEB HREF="$Url">"


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