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- Welcome to ArcWeb</h1>
-
- <strong>ArcWeb</strong> 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 <a href="maillist">mailing list</a> to which you
- can subscribe in order to receive announcements via e-mail. There is a page
- listing <a href="What'sNew">what's new in recent versions</a>, including new
- features such as <a href="interedit">Interactive Editing</a> and <a
- href="ftpupload">FTP uploads</a>.
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- You can now view page meta information by clicking Adjust on the
- <img src="#sm!help" alt="small info icon"> on the toolbar.
- If you come across a problem with your version, please check
- first whether you are using the latest version of not. You can do this by
- checking the <a href="http://ftp.dsse.ecs.soton.ac.uk:8080/ftp/ArcWeb/">primary
- FTP site</a> at my lab at the <a href="http://www.soton.ac.uk/">University of
- Southampton</a>. If you need to send me a bug report then
- please first read the <a href="bugreports">bug report instructions</a> 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 <a href="hintsntips">hints & tips</a>.
-
- <h2 align=center>Beginner's Guide to the Web</h2>
-
- This is a <a href="index">hypertext</a> 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 <em>Colours ...</em> 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.
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- 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, <a href="ftpinst">FTP</a>, 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 <a href="proxy">proxy</a> such as that found at
- wwwcache.hensa.ac.uk or www-cache.demon.co.uk. <em>telnet</em> requires
- either <a href="http://www.xargle.demon.co.uk/2020/freeterm.html"><img border=0 alt=FreeTerm align=top src="#!freeterm"></a> or Acorn's <img
- align=top alt="!VT220" src="#!vt220"> or to be loaded and running.
-
- ArcWeb integrates with many other programs, including <img src="#!changefsi" align=middle
- alt="ChangeFSI"> and Clares' <a href="http://www.stcoll.ac.uk/clares/MISC/virt.html">
- Virtualise <img border=0 src=virtsprite align=middle></a>
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- <h2 align=center>Starting Points</h2>
-
- <h3>Acorn Links</h3>
- 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:
- <a name=acornlinks></a>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="http://www.acorn.co.uk/">Acorn Computer Group</a> home page
- <li><a href="http://www.arm.com/">Advanced RISC Machines Ltd.</a>
- <li><a href="http://www.xemplar.co.uk/">Xemplar Education</a>
- <li><a href="http://www.poppyfields.net/acorn/">The alternative Acorn users' home page</a>
- </ul>
-
- <h3>Search Engines</h3>
- 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 linked to from this page. Many
- even carry links to other search engines!
- <ul>
- <li><strong><a href="http://www.yahoo.com/">Yahoo!</a></strong> (USA)
- <ul><li><a href="http://www.yahoo.co.uk/">UK & Ireland mirror</a> for Yahoo</ul>
- <li><strong><a href="http://www.lycos.com/"><img alt="Lycos" src=lycos_logo
- width=79 height=33
- align=center border=0></a></strong>, USA
- <li><strong><a href="http://webcrawler.com/">WebCrawler</a></strong> at America Online
- Inc., California USA.
- <li><strong><a href="http://www2.infoseek.com/">InfoSeek</a></strong> provided by
- Infoseek Corporation
- </ul>
-
- If you need to search UseNet news, then there are two major sites
- which support this: <ul><li><strong>
- <a href="http://www.dejanews.com/">DejaNews</a></strong>. This is an extremely
- powerful search engine and very useful for looking up subjects that
- have been discussed in a particlar newsgroup (or set of groups) in the
- past.<li><strong><a href="http://www.altavista.digital.com/">Alta Vista</a>
- </strong> is the other one, hosted by Digital Equipment Corporation, and can
- search either UseNet or the Web. This also has a <a href="http://www.altavista.telia.com/">
- European mirror site</a> which may be quicker for European users to access.
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