On Sat, 29 Jun 1996 vanished@alpha.c2.org wrote:
While rummaging around in my cookie jar, I found this message--along with some cookies.
:Netscape HTTP Cookie File :# http://www.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html :# This is a generated file! Do not edit.
"What happens if I delete this file?"
Nothing (other than the file getting deleted).
"What happens if I delete (edit) the cookies?"
They get deleted/edited. When I was testing some cookie stuff, I regularly deleted several cookies manually while Netscape was running, with no ugliness resulting. Since there is no way to delete them from Netscape itself, vi is about the best option. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Jeremey Barrett Senior Software Engineer jeremey@forequest.com The ForeQuest Company http://www.forequest.com/ "less is more." -- Mies van de Rohe. Ken Thompson has an automobile which he helped design. Unlike most automobiles, it has neither speedometer, nor gas gage, nor any of the numerous idiot lights which plague the modern driver. Rather, if the driver makes any mistake, a giant "?" lights up in the center of the dashboard. "The experienced driver", he says, "will usually know what's wrong." -- 'fortune` output