About ethic
This software had been written by professionals who hope that their work will satisfy you. At many times, you will be incited to pay it if you have a regular use. However, NO cached information will be never transmitted by Internet even in case of abuse by dishonest customers.

What is AblyClicClic ?
AblyClicClic is an Internet Uploader that supports only the FTP protocol.

AblyClicClic’s features include:
* Declaration of import-file status
* Local FTP emulation for tests
* On line variables substitution
* Complete Windows 95 shortcuts management to share folders and files between sites
* Sub-Entries, which allow the user to have different preferences for different logins
* Simple mechanism for automating logins
* Easy main access to AblyClicClic features through a button bar
* Colours can be customized
* All the messages can be copied and pasted
* Support for use from the command line ( registred version )


System Requirements
AblyClicClic requires :
* a minimum of a Intel 486 based machine with 16 megabytes of RAM or Cache Disk .

* the Windows 95 operating system, with an Internet browser. Installing Explorer 4 of MS is the best way to ensure perfect installation with wininet.dll and MFC42.dll.

* 1 MB of disk space for software installation

* 64 Ko of disk space for each Ftp entry.

This version may treat 2000 folders and 8000 files with a small computer. The Pro version has the same limits as you disk resources.

Microsoft explorers
You have to know
Thoses help pages assume that you are already familiar with Microsoft Windows 95 and its files Explorer. You know well that the Web is an enormous folder of folders and that you need to use a protocol specified by the host to update your own Web folder.

The 3 main protocols are the front access, eMail and FTP. Each one has some particular advantages but this version knows only FTP. Registred users of the 2.n.n versions will receive the 3.0.0 who deals with front access.

First, you must be sure to have a FTP account. To use one, called here an entry, you need at least 3 informations : a FTP url , a login and a password.

You must be familiar too with mirroring. The samplest way to maintain your web folder is to build on your hard disk a folder who will contain all the files you want to publish and to use relative links ( the standard ). This folder is surfable while modifying. When extension or modification had ended, AblyClicClic will copy the local folder on the Web, using FTP channel and protocol. Only modified files and folders are updated and a clean up is made on the Web. The new Web directory is memorized for the next update.

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Invisible inactive buttons
Inactive buttons are always made invisible. If its picture is not significant, move the cursor on it to read a tool tip. Almost arrays have one and it is useful to see them one time when beginning.

Colours are intensively used to personate screens. You may set them with global parameters.


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Browsing background colours
2 background colors are used to differenciate the 2 senses of the main stream. The first for update from local to the Web and the 2nd from the Web to local.

The first function of the software is to update the WEB , copying from the local hard disk to the Web. It is the normal sense of stream and background is blue ( standard setting ). Be carefull about import files : their own stream is the inverse of the main stream.

You can download your Web too. It does not mean that it is a dowload tool ! ( See AblyClicDown ACD ). But, sometimes, it may be usefull to download the Web contents, like after a crash. To do that, you must click on 'danger', and background color changes to red or pink, indicating the new update sense. To return to the the previous state, you must click on the 'end danger' button.

Folders as documents
YOU CAN IGNORE THAT.

The documents are folders .
You find them in the installation folder, near '0 0systeme' or '0 stars end' , those non beginning with '0 ' ( zero + space ).

You can remove or rename them, but only those who are in the system ( 0 0systeme) folder are actives.

Misc Usages
The main use of AblyClicClic is to update web sites by FTP. But you can use it to build any folder project, like cdRom or floppy software distribution.

AblyCDBuilder is another tool from Programmeurs Réunis who seems to AblyClicClic without FTP but includes introduction shell, index and search softwares and some sources for Visual C++ 5.0 .

AblyClicClic can be used as a download tool but it is not its goal if you don't want to build a personnal mirror of some famous site. Don't forget that the browsers are able to download ftp files. If you need some extra features, please test AblyClicDown ( ACD ). For example, when download is too slow, it can start a second download if there is multiple files, or split the download of a big file if the restart option is enabled on the server.