Edenyard wrote:
>> ...pressing Q to download all links on a given page....
>
> Please can anyone enlighten me? This is NOT the first time
>that I've seen reference to pressing Q to do this. Heeding
>Glenn's advice of some time ago to study the HOTKEYS.HTM page
>frequently, I did just that and I couldn't find any reference
>to Q.
>
> What's the score here? Should it work? Is there a reference to it in
>any documentation?
It should work, do you mean that it doesn't for you?
I don't know where it says that you can do it, but it's been a great
feature (IMHO) in Arachne for a few versions (starting from 1.50?)
Aha, here it is (from history.txt):
1.50 "release candidate"
(snip)
New hotkeys Q - request all links in page, V - verify links.
Also available via new customizable Toolbar.
However Arachne is not yet able to determine that a given page already has
been added to the list of pages it will load. So on pages (like the one I
downloaded - "Art of Assembly") the download time will be much higher than
required unless one changes the .asf file Arachne creates by hand. (Reduced
download time on my university from more than 1 hour (and by then only half
way through) to a total of 15 minutes.
Perhaps Michael can add info in it to the next verison of the hotkeys file?
BTW: If you want to use this in a more usefull way you should download my
acopy.apm which will (when configured correctly) save the downloaded files
with their original name in the cache directory. (Extremly usefull -
however requires that the names are in a 8.3 format to not create any
problems - unless your command.com can handle LFNs).
//Bernie
http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ...
