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- Welcome to ArcWeb
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- <img src="#switcher" align=center><a href="index">User Manual</a>
- <img src="#switcher" align=center><a href="credits">Credits</a>
- <img src="#switcher" align=center><a href="author">About the author</a>
- <img src="#switcher" align=center><a href="extensions">HTML Extensions</a>
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- <H1 align=center><img src="#!arcweb" align=center>
- <u>Welcome to ArcWeb</u></h1>
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- <bf>ArcWeb</bf> is a World Wide Web browser for Acorn RISC OS computers.
- ArcWeb provides facilities for browsing documents on your own local system,
- but does not provide any of the functionality required to fetch
- documents over the Internet. The interface to the Internet is provided
- by ArcWebTCP. <a href="arcwebtcp">ArcWebTCP</a><img src="#!arcwebtcp"
- align=center> is
- used for viewing resources whose URLs start with 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 and gopher require a <a
- href="proxy">proxy</a> such as that found at wwwcache.hensa.ac.uk or
- www.demon.co.uk. <em>telnet</em> requires Acorn's !VT220 or FreeTerm to be
- loaded and running.
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- <h2 align=center>Beginner's Guide to the Web</h2>
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- This is a <a href="index">hypertext</a> link to the test page. Under a
- default desktop palette, the text is black and the hypertext is blue. This
- can be changed by editing the configuration file (eventually you will be able
- to do this in a dialogue box). 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.
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- <h2 align=center>Starting Points</h2>
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- Sometimes it is difficult to find the information that you are looking for on
- the web. This is where <em>search engines</em> help. When you connect to the
- search engine, it allows you to enter a keyword and it will return a list of
- sites which <em>may</em> be contain relevant information. There are several
- around, but some of the most well known are:
- <ul>
- <li><a href="http://lycos.cs.cmu.edu/">Lycos</a> at Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- <li><a href="http://webcrawler.com/">WebCrawler</a> at America Online Inc., California USA.
- <li><a href="http://www2.infoseek.com/">InfoSeek</a> provided by Infoseek Corporation
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- S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk <br><a href="http://www.dsse.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~snb94r/">
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