Hello Glenn -
I tried your suggestion (2 step version) of changing some lines in
\arachne\system\gui\saveas.ah
from: <FORM ACTION="arachne:save">
Filename: <INPUT TYPE="TEXT" ARACHNESAVE NAME="$COPY" SIZE=36>
to: <FORM ACTION="file://saveit.dgi">
Filename: <INPUT TYPE="TEXT" ARACHNESAVE NAME="" SIZE=36>
It worked fine for the print-page-as-text option. But I find a
further annoyance in that regard: namely, ARACHNE gives no
indication that anything happened other than a slight blink in
the screen. I think ARACHNE should take you back to the page that
you were printing-as-text. BTW, I don't have a printer attached.
Would this affect anything? I just assumed that this option is
intended to produce a TXT file arhher than actually print to a
printer.
For downloading a file to somewhere other than the download
directory, it worked fine also, BUT not directly. Arachne produced
the "I don't know what to do with this file" screen but saved
after I entered the destination a second time. Also, the screen goes
black and a message saying "converting" or something like that is
given on what appears to be the DOS terminal. Then things go
back to the URL. After exiting, I find a remnant file called
XXX.
Glenn, your fix is fine and I appreciate the time you took to
work it out. But for the moment, I will stick to Ron's solution
and go strictly by the defaults and relocate things to where I
want them later.
For the sake of the neophytes (including me) however, I would
SUGGEST TO MICHAEL either:
1. to leave things as they are but arrange it so that the default
paths CANNOT be changed (because allowing them to be changed
implies that the commands will be executed that way, which
they presently are NOT.
2. to incorporate something like Glenn's suggestion with the
proviso however that:
a) after printing to a text file, there is some indication
that something happened (preferably being returned to the
URL screen). I think this should be done in both cases.
b) when a path is changed from the dowload directory to something
else, download it WITHOUT having to enter the new path a second
time. Continue to return to the URL after completion. Erase
any remnant files.
Klaus Hameyer
Burlington, VT (USA)
