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- WebGet V0.16
- ============
-
- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
- + WebGet is 'giftware'. Please read the licence +
- + at the bottom of this file. +
- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-
-
- Installation
- ============
-
- Basically, copy !WebGet out of the archive, load !WebGet.Choices into a
- text editor and alter at least the proxy details, if required.
-
-
- Adding URLs to the fetch queue
- ==============================
-
- This can be done by either selecting 'Add URL' from WebGet's iconbar
- menu, or ticking 'Capture URLs' and then clicking on URLs in other
- applications (eg. mail/news readers, hotlist programs, etc), or
- buying dragging a URL or URI the WebGet's iconbar icon.
-
- The Capture URLs facility will only reliably work when there isn't
- a web browser loaded!
-
-
- Fetching pages
- ==============
-
- Go online, run !WebGet and then select the appropriate fetch from the
- 'Start Fetch' submenu of the iconbar menu.
-
- Click select on the iconbar to open the status window.
-
- The pages will be fetched, and then rewritten so that all the links
- work in the local copies of the pages. Once this is complete, the
- log file will be automatically run.
-
- The 'Stop Fetch' menu item may be used to gracefully stop a download -
- webget will not start to download any more pages, and will enter the
- rewrite phase once all the in progress pages have finished.
-
- 'Abort fetch' will immediately stop a download, and will also stop
- the pages being rewritten.
-
- 'Configure...' is greyed out, because it hasn't been implemented yet!
-
-
- Reporting Bugs
- ==============
-
- If you find a bug in webget, please send an email to
- webget@ping.demon.co.uk, including the following information:
-
- * Version of webget in use
- * URL(s) being fetched (if appropriate)
- * Copies of fetch, log and choices files, as appropriate.
- * Risc OS and Internet stack version
-
-
- Future Enhancements
- ===================
-
- Requests for enhancements are welcome via email to webget@ping.demon.co.uk.
-
- The following is a brief list of the enhancements (in no particular order)
- I plan to make when I find the time:
-
- * Configuration window
- * Better format for sites directory
- * Restarting and freshening of fetches
- * End of fetch summary (number of errors, speed, etc)
- * Multiple log files
- * Better animation icon whilst downloading
- * More information in progress window (eg. %age fetched, when available)
- * A stronghelp manual
- * Release of source
- * Ability to remove URLs from the fetch files once they've been fetched
- * Ability to limit fetches to certain filetypes, or exclude certain
- file types.
- * Rewrite unfetched URL's to webget:http://www.wherever/, then set things
- so when the link is traversed, webget will offer to fetch the url.
- NB. need to think about inline images and things?
- * Hide some of the more esoteric options in the add url dialogue
- inside an 'Advanced' box or something?
- * Improve the searching speed of the internal URL database
- * Support for 'norobots.txt'?
- * Add way to abort fetch of a url to status win.
- * Add size & %age to url's in status win.
- * Timeouts for socket operations
-
- Credits
- =======
-
- Thanks to the following for beta testing:
-
- * Andrew Ingram
- * Alisdair McDiarmid
- * Tony Houghton
-
- Thanks to everyone who has emailed me suggestions and bug reports,
- or just emails saying 'Wow!' - I'm afraid there's too many of
- you to list everyone here!
-
- Stewart Brodie, for the multitasking dns libary that WebGet uses to
- resolve hostnames into ip addresses.
-
- A big thankyou to Justin Fletcher, for writing the rather handy GPLed
- MimeMap module that's now distributed with WebGet.
-
- Thanks also go to Richard Atterer, the author of the excellent raFS
- program that WebGet uses to store all its downloaded web pages.
- raFS is available from <http://home.augsburg.baynet.de/richard.atterer/>.
-
- A special "thankyou!" goes to Samuel Penn, who was the first person
- I received the 'gift' from!
-
- Licence
- =======
-
- WebGet is distributed as 'giftware'. This is similar to freeware, but
- you are encouraged (rather that obliged, as with shareware) to send the
- author approximately 5ukp if you think it's worth it. See the section
- at the end of this file for contact details.
-
- Your money will encourage the future development and support of this
- and other freeware/giftware RiscOS applications.
- (and, of course, if you send a feature request accompanied by some
- money, you may find I'm more likely to implement it ;-) )
-
- [If sending UK currency isn't easy for you, feel free to send me
- something 'interesting' from the country you're in. And, no, I don't
- exactly know what I mean by that either! Fudge or chocolate are also
- acceptable if you're stuck for ideas :-) ]
-
- WebGet may be freely distributed, providing all files are intact and
- unchanged as in the original archive distributed by me.
- Magazine/CDROM editors or people otherwise wanting to include WebGet
- in a package or commercial product are respectfully requested to
- contact the author before distributing WebGet.
-
- Contact details
- ===============
-
- New versions of WebGet will appear on:
-
- http://www.ping.demon.co.uk/acorn/download.html
-
-
- All email about WebGet should be addressed to:
-
- webget@ping.demon.co.uk
-
-
- To contact me via snail-mail:
-
- Joseph Heenan
- 25 Attoxhall Road
- Wyken
- Coventry
- CV2 5AH
-
- Mailing lists
- =============
-
- There are two mailing lists about webget - an announcement list
- for new versions, and a discussion list.
- To join, send a message with a /body/ of either:
-
- subscribe webget-l
-
- or:
-
- subscribe webget-announce
-
- to <majordomo@ping.demon.co.uk>. Announcements will be copied to
- the discussion list, so you only need to join one or the other!
-
- --
- Joseph Heenan
- webget@ping.demon.co.uk
-