Proxies

This setting depends very much on your provider and/or your location. If your provider has a WWW proxy cache of it's own then you would be well advised to configure it here to enhance the performance of Voyager even further. You'll need to know the name or IP address of the proxy server and fill this in at least the HTTP box. The port number is also essential. Normally this is 80 but you must be sure of this value as proxy will not work if it is incorrect. Enter the name and port for the remaining FTP, Gopher and WAIS text gadgets unless you specifically want to use seperate proxy servers for those functions of Voyager.

Cache

This text gadget allows you to set the total size of the on-disk cache Voyager will uses. When Voyager is started, it will scan the Cache directory (called Cache within the Voyager directory) and delete the oldest records in order of age until the total size of the on-disk cache is less than the selected size. Note that the size is in kilobytes. A value of 512 is 512K or half a megabyte. To enter a 10MB on-disk cache, enter 10 x 1024 or 10240 in the text gadget. The Verify Cached Documents flag will instruct Voyager to enquire as to the status of a cached document when a document is requested which is present in the on-disk cache. With this function enabled, Voyager will verify that the page has not changed since the cache entry and so you will never be left with an out-of-date page in the cache. This option is recommended.

News

Here the news server for the News: function of Voyager is defined. Without a valid NNTP server here that you have access to, you will not be able to access Usenet news via Voyager. Normally your provider will have it's own NNTP news server. If you don't know the name, ask your provider. The Dumb NNTP Server flag needs to be set if you have problems without this option. Normally Voyager will try and request a list of newsgroups to a pattern. IE News:comp.sys.amiga.* but several news servers do not understand this format. If this is the case and an error is reported, turn on this flag in which case Voyager will request a full list and then show the pattern matched result by calculating it internally. It will result in a much longer download but it will work. Be sure and add your Email address and real name in the gadgets provided for this. In addition you may creat a signature that will be appended to your posts to usenet newsgroups in the signature form area.

Other

This tab currently supports helpers for "mailto" and "telnet" protocols. These should be configured for whichever apps you wish to have invoked upon clicking on a mailto: or telnet: link.both protocols support %h for the host, and telnet supports %p for the port number.

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