The MINERVA example program GetURL shows

• how to use MINERVA to read a file from the Internet
• how to use a URL as an input stream
• how to process a text file in units of lines and characters
• how to do this as standalone and applet
• how to work with exceptions

The MINERVA source program is getURL.min

Refer to 'Compile', 'Go' and the other files of this directory for details.

In the applet, just type a URL in the input line of the applet then the program will get the file and copy the file to stdout. (Java security exceptions will occur for URLs from other hosts and for file urls).

As a standalone the program can go for any text file url, thus can be the sucking end of a web crawler or internet search engine.

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