On Sun, 19 Nov 2000 23:32:53 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jamm) wrote:
> I'm using the latest arachne on DOS (but it's not a windows DOS).
> Is there a key I can hit to interrupt a download? Sometimes I go to
> a site and realize that it is going to take 4 mins to get the page, or
> that I've made a mistake and it's not the site I want. At the moment
> I seem to have no choice but to sit it out (or else exit arachne). I
> thought the ctrl-break key was going to do it, but the message screen is
> misleading: ctrl-break doesn't abort the download, it exits arachne!
> Is there a way to have arachne operate as a text browser, not downloading
> all the graphics that sites have on their front page? The ~ key seems
> to do no more that stop the graphics being rendered onto the screen
> (giving a saving of up to 2 seconds), but it still insists on dragging
> all the time-consuming graphics across the net and storing them, even
> though they are no going to be used.
Press "O"
Link to "Preferences & Performance"
Uncheck the box for "auto download inline images"
2 sections furture down, Check <Esc> "ignored"
Scroll to the bottom of the page and link to "OK, Save"
On the next page, link to "Use new settings"
That's all there is to it.
>From now on, the Esc key will abort the current download and will be
ignored if a D/L is not in progress.
And of course, you will now need to use the "insert" key or link to the
"Load images" Ikon to download the images.
--
Glenn
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