[arachne] Re: A190 DOWNLOADING FILES PROBLEM
- From: wizard57m@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 01:59:56 -0000
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Brian,
Check the "path" in the save as dialogue box
when you press F2 key, make sure it is pointed
in the right direction...in your case
\ARACHARD\DOWNLOAD\
note the filename.ext goes immediately after download\
Wiz <{;-)
---- Original Message ----
From: BCMURPHY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: ARACHNE@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [arachne] A190 DOWNLOADING FILES PROBLEM
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:57:42 -0500
>Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
>
>Having now "properly"? configured Arachne 190j1-387, at least to the
>extent
>
>that I can now launch Arachne with the Vancouver Free Net as my ISP,
>I now
>have some other, hopefully minor problems with the behavior of A190
>to deal
>
>with.
>
>I want to begin with the problem of downloading files from places
>such as
>SHORT STOP, where I could always efficiently download when I was
>using
>a170R3.
>
>Now, A170R3 would download a file by first clicking on it and then
>waiting
>for
>the download to take place, then going RIGHT to the download screen
>and
>clicking there, which would result in the file downloading to the
>ARACHARD/DOWNLOAD file as it should and where it would be neatly and
>visibly
>arranged with the other downloaded files there. (In some cases the
>RIGHT
>download screen would not appear as it should and I would have to CTL
>LEFT
>ARROW, click on the original download name, and then automatically go
>RIGHT
>
>back to the final download screen, where I could almost always click
>on the
>
>download screen to have the downloaded file moved to
>ARACHARD\DOWNLOAD
>where I
>wanted it.
>
>I understand that A190 is set up to first let you view an HTML view
>of the
>contents of the file and that then, if you want to download it, you
>press
>F2.
>
>Well, that works, sort of, but inconveniently; it downloads the file
>into
>cache instead of into ARACHARD\DOWNLOAD. That means that later, off
>line,
>I
>have to go through cache and search for ZIP or whatever the file type
>was
>and move them manually from cache to ARACHARD\DOWNLOAD.
>
>A. Now, if I could have both the HTML file contents view and a SURE
>download
>to ARACHARD\DOWNLOAD, I would probably opt for that. Is there a neat
>and
>simple way to achieve that with Arachne 1.90?
>
>B.If not, I would like to revert to the downloading procedure from
>A170R3
>where I simply click on the file to start the download procedure and
>then,
>that is complete, click on the file to download it to
>ARACHARD\DOWNLOAD.
>
>(AS noted above, At some download sites, after completion of the
>preliminary
>download sequence, and my going to the place where the download
>screen
>should
>be, I would have to XTRL LEFT ARROW back to the file display screen,
>click
>there, and then go back to the download screen area where, at that
>point,
>the
>final download screen would appear and let me click to download the
>file to
>
>ARACHARD\DOWNLOAD where I wanted it to go.)
>
>Is there a simple and easy way to get A above or, if not, B above.
>
>Comment from skilled aficianados of later versions of Arachne would
>be most
>
>welcome.
>
>Thank you,
>Brian Murphy
>
>
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