File I/O has many potential uses, and in the case of network file shares, messaging can be conducted by creating files in a directory and scanning for new files to find new messages. In the case where there are restrictions within a network that prevent opening server sockets or creating and using client sockets, the technique in this recipe may be used with file shares instead. The program is simple and was written in about fifty minutes, so there are a great deal of enhancements that could be made to the recipe and its capabilities. Hopefully, this will provide inspiration for other program writers.

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After writing the limited program shown in recipe 577637, the following program was written with a better yet incompatible I/O system designed not to fill up a file share with many, separate files. This program had five revisions as outlined within the source code. To access settings within this program, use the "F2" key. Documentation may be accessed via the "F1" key (with future plans cut).

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For those who would want to search the message logs produced by recipe 577638, this program provides a command-line solution to searching messages according to their authors. If this program is placed in the message directory, the program may be executed on the command-line with the author's name as an argument. If and when the program is executed without an argument, usage information is shown on the screen before exiting. If an author was not found, the author's name is printed stating that nothing could be found. If a matching file was found, all timestamps and messages will be displayed that could be decoded correctly.

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Any table with an attribute of align="left" also applies float:left in older versions of IE, this fixes it.

this is a lazy fix for a problem I came across. safari doubles the border spacing to divide table cells when using tbody ( I cant use borders+collapse, because of rounded tablecells :( )

assigns/removes the class 'over' to elements on hover since IE does not attach :hover to any element but A

Multithreaded Python programs often ignore the SIGINT generated by a Keyboard Interrupt, especially if the thread that gets the signal is waiting or sleeping. This module provides a workaround by forking a child process that executes the rest of the program while the parent process waits for signals and kills the child process.