4 things left to do, to the program I am creating above... & that'll be later tonite after work (which I cut out of early today, put in way, WAY too many hours the past few weeks in fact, + I need the 'mental break', OR, I WILL BREAK so-to-speak):

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• 1.) Allow the option (in the "file format scrub" portion, topmost button) to generate HOSTS files that use either 127.0.0.1 (slowest/largest option, BUT most compatible), 0.0.0.0 (next largest/slowest option, less compatible across diff. OS', but, is faster loadtime & smaller RAM occupancy in the local DNS cache your OS + tcp/ip stack keeps than 127.0.0.1) & lastly a NEW more efficient format I am using ( 0<singlespace>URLtoBLOCK<cr+lf> ) that actually WORKS for bad adbanners/sites,,, it quite literally shaved my HOSTS file down from 14mb size, to 11mb, already, yet yields FULL blocking function!

• 2.) The ability to PING a list of sites in a .txt file, for folks that like to use the HOSTS file to speedup access to their fav. websites, which I for one, do, since it takes less time to get an IP resolution from your local DNS cache OR the HOSTS file, than it does taking time to call out to a DNS Server, many orders of magnitude faster in fact (I have this code already having written MANY apps like it) into another tab - &, to "merge it" with the blocking section format scrub output file from #1 above also!

• 3.) Storing my PREBUILT 11mb HOSTS file in another tab & memo field for save to disk overwriting ones folks have stored, as an option, for save to disk (either I will do it THIS way, OR, store it as a programmatic resource to extract, which I do in my APK Doctor Who ScreenSaver (w/ its .avi file it plays)).

• 4.) Stop the use of hardcodes, & use FileOpen + FileSave dialog box controls instead

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* So far, so good... almost done/ready, for "public consumption"...

To quote the "Foo Fighters" from their tune "ALL MY LIFE" (listening to it now):

"Done, done, & I'm onto the NEXT ONE!"

APK

P.S.=> I was NOT going to put this out for the general public initially, & I was only going to use it myself (hence, why I initially 'hardcoded' file locations to files to scrub, HOSTS file location, etc. et al), but... it's getting to the point where it is good enough, especially after the above list, for the 'general public'... & my pal Jack was like "This is good stuff, put it out there", which is how any other app I have ever done & put out online came to happen - folks I knew liked them, & suggested I do so... apk

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