Thomas,
I said downloading a file was easy. Those RARs were *documents*
according to the server, not files. That's not the fault of Arachne,
but at least Arachne is versatile enough to actually be used to do what
would normally be as impossible as downloading the format of a BBS you
sent messages to/from.
If you want to save an html page with Arachne it's really simple; select
and click and "save as." Not a screen shot [which Arachne can also do]
but the actual page code; I do that sometimes when I find a site that
does something I want to do and have had difficulty with. As to whether
or not you want to unzip something, that's up to you. You can change
MIME.CFG to automatically unzip everything and send it where you want
it, you can shell out and unzip the file how/where/when you want, you
can chose to wait until you're off-line to move/manipulate the file.
Arachne sometimes gets the short end of the sheet "because it won't do
____ like NetScape/IE/OE" ... but when you get down to it, Arachne can
do much more in many areas than any other software, and it's not fair to
denegrate an entire package simply because it doesn't have a specific
"bell" or "whistle" that an otherwise inferior piece of software has.
To get right down to it, Arachne is what Bill Gates dreams of dozeware
being -- all things to all people. The difference is that it is up to
the person using Arachne to decide what they want, and make the personal
changes they need to accomplish the desired goal. *AND* Arachne also
allows the user to decide what is NOT to be done. I dare you to do that
with any software that requires dozeware to function. <G>
l.d.
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