Don't know if you'd consider it "elegant" [I'm not elegant, and don't
like feathers and jewels] but downloading a file with Arachne is pretty
basic and simple.
You're on a web site, you click to download a file, the file downloads,
Arachne asks you to confirm the directory and file name you want to
save with/to. Not elegant at all; just clean and simple.
You want to save a page you're looking at? You can do it with a hotkey
or a couple of clicks. Want to save the page you're looking at in pure
ascii text format? A different hotkey or a couple of clicks.
Arachne always give you the final option of both naming the file and
determining where it will go. If you don't put a path in to another
directory, it will be saved in your main directory or default download
directory.
With FTP downloads it's the same as with html page downloads. Arachne
asks you to confirm that it goes in the download directory you
designated during setup, and the filename.
There is no reason you should ever *EVER* have to go to cache to find a
file you want to save -- not even a graphics file! See a graphic you
like? Right-click on it and it comes up in its own screen. Then hotkey
or 'save to file' click and it's saved after you confirm destination and
file name.
Now ... if that's not elegant, too bad. It is simple, it is clean, it
is much more flexible than some of the other options out there.
Oh ... if you want a screen shot that's easy enough too. Hit
print-screen button and then click to save the file, and verify download
directory/file name.
I sometimes wonder howcome some people that have been on the list for
years know even less about how Arachne works than *I* do.
l.d.
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On Thu, 1 Jun 2000 05:42:52 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote:
> That makes me think, how does one download a file in Arachne? Is there any
> elegant way that avoids attempting to process the file based on extension?
> Something as simple as 'd' in Lynx when on the link to be downloaded, or setting
> "Save to disk mode" from the menu in IBM Web Explorer? Downloading in
> background and then fishing in the CACHE directory among cryptic file names is
> not elegant!
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