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Welcome to ArcWeb

ArcWeb is a World Wide Web browser for Acorn RISC OS computers. It is a constantly evolving piece of software, which is updated fairly frequently. If you want to be informed about the release of new versions, then there is a mailing list to which you can subscribe in order to receive announcements via e-mail. There is a page listing what's new in recent versions, including new features such as Interactive Editing and FTP uploads. If you come across a problem with your version, please check first whether you are using the latest version or not. You can do this by checking the primary FTP site at my lab at the University of Southampton. If you need to send me a bug report then please first read the bug report instructions as this will tell you how you can enable me to find your problem much faster. Please feel free to send in suggestions for enhancements. You might like to check out the hints & tips.

Beginner's Guide to the Web

This is a hypertext link to the manual index page. Under a default desktop palette, the text is black and the hypertext is blue. This can be changed by choosing the Colours ... item on the Options menu. You will notice a much higher quality of rendition if you use a screen mode with 256 or more colours, since the anti- aliasing provided by the RISC OS Font Manager is able to do a much better job with more colours available. If you are using RISC OS 3.70 and switch on the background font blending, then you will notice an extremely high quality rendering against background images as the Font Manager's dynamic anti-aliasing comes into action. NOTE: If you enable this and you have Virtualise® running, you must NOT make the Dynamic Area called "Inverse Table" virtual, unless you want everything to be unreadable.

ArcWeb provides facilities for browsing documents on your own local system and over the Internet. ArcWeb can be used for viewing resources whose URLs start with local, http, FTP, news, nntp, mailto, telnet, finger, gopher and WAIS with Acorn TCP/IP or FreeNet. All but the last is supported natively, as WAIS requires a proxy such as that found at wwwcache.ja.net or www-cache.demon.co.uk. telnet requires either FreeTerm or Acorn's !VT220 or to be loaded and running. ArcWeb integrates with many other programs, including ChangeFSI and Clares' Virtualise

Starting Points

Acorn Links

I have listed a few pages that are good places to start browsing the World Wide Web. Firstly, there are a few starting off points of interest to Acorn users in particular:

Search Engines

Sometimes it is difficult to find the information that you are looking for on the web. This is where search engines help. When you connect to the search engine, it allows you to enter a keyword and it will return a list of sites which may be contain relevant information. There are several around, but some of the most well known are linked to from this page. Many even carry links to other search engines! If you need to search UseNet news, then there are two major sites which support this:
S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk
http://www.dsse.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~snb94r/