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4. Reference - Preferences

4.1 General

• The "Suppress Sounds" checkbox allows you to make Monica run silently.
• The "Comment Files" checkbox allows you to make Monica place the file URL in the file's comment field after downloading.
• The "Translate Hex values" checkbox, if checked, will translate hexadecimal values in dropped URLs. For example in the URL "ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/files/abcd%20efg.zip" the "%20" represents a space character. Some browsers embed the hexadecimal values of certain characters when allowing you to drag a URL. In this example the "%20" would be translated to a space character. If the checkbox is left unchecked no translation takes place.
• The "Autostart Queue" specifies that Monica should automatically start the queue when the program starts up.
• The "AutoPurge Queue" specifies that Monica should automatically purge the queue approximately every 10 minutes.
• The "Download Folder" field and "Select" button allow you to specify where Monica should put the downloaded files.

4.2 Transmission

• The "Retry Delay" parameter specifies how many seconds Monica must wait before trying a download again. Some servers get annoyed if you reconnect too quickly, and you can get around this by setting this parameter.
• The "Number of Retries" specifies the number of times to retry a download if errors occur.
• The "Timeout" field specifies the number of seconds to wait without receiving any data before restarting downloads.
• The "Max Downloads" specifies the maximum number of downloads that can run simultaneously in queued download mode.
• The Base URL field allows you to specify a remote file URL that points to a file containing a further list of files for download.

4.3 HTTP

• The "HTTP Proxy Server" field allows you to enter a HTTP proxy server name if you use one. If you do not wish to use a proxy server then leave this field blank.
• The "Proxy Port" field should contain the appropriate port number to use to connect to your proxy server if you use one.
• The "Ignore Chunked Error" checkbox allows you to control how Monica treats chunked mode transfers. If you are happy with how Monica deals with these, check the box.
• The "Referer" field contains the text that is sent to the remote server to tell it which web page sent you to this URL. Several servers check to see if that is them, and if not they will disallow the download. If you leave this blank then the server you are downloading from is used.
• The "User Agent" field tells the remote server what client program you are running. You know you are running Monica, but sometimes its a good idea to tell the remote server that you are one of the main browsers. The description "Mozilla/4.04 (Macintosh; I; PPC, Nav)" is from Netscape 4.04 for Mac.

4.4 FTP

• The "User name" should be left as "anonymous" for ftp access in most cases.
• The "Login" should be your email address.
• The "Use Passive FTP" checkbox allows you to specify globally whether FTP transfers should take place in "passive" mode. "Passive" mode lets the remote server specify the data transfer port, as opposed to normal mode where the client ( Monica ) specifies the port. Some FTP servers only allow passive downloads, others disallow passive downloads. Try checking this option if you are having problems transferring via FTP.

4.5 Hotline

• In the "Nickname" field enter your chosen Hotline nickname.
• In the "Icon Number" field put the number of the icon you like using in Hotline.

4.6 PPP

• Check the "Start PPP on Program Start" box if you want Monica to fire up PPP when she loads.
• Check the "Stop PPP on Queue Completion" box if you want Monica to stop PPP when there are no more items to download in the queue.
• Check the "Stop PPP on Program Quit" box if you want Monica to stop PPP when she quits.

4.7 Register

If you have paid, please enter your name ( EXACTLY as it was submitted to Kagi and stated in our registration email to you ), and the registration code you have received. It would be best to copy and paste these from the email you received notifying you of your registration code. Note that both fields are case-sensitive. Then press the "Register" button to save your registration details. Once your registration code has been accepted by the program you do not need to enter it again.

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Last updated by DocGen on Thursday, March 15, 2001 at 8:56:53

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