Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! Greg, If I ALT-X and then return with arachne-enter, I return to the same page I left. But, if I first hangup the modem, then ALT-X and then return with arachne-enter, then I get the dialup page. Eric On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:43:42 +1030, Greg Mayman wrote: > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! > On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 16:01:44 -0500, Eric S. Emerson wrote: >> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! >> Right Greg M., >> These behaviors were what I was referring >> to when I said I was confussled. I think I understand >> what the usage of the term homepage is when referring >> to a page called by a button in a browser. But, what >> any particular browser user wants when returning from >> an ALT-E or an ALT-X with or without being connected >> online is the confuzzling part. > There is no return from Alt-X. It closes Arachne. > And when I do an Alt-E and then exit, Arachne usually returns me to the > page I had open when I shelled out. >> As you see, as I said >> earlier, it is my understanding that with default settings >> the dialer page is supposed to come up when you first >> start Arachne and you are offline. It doesn't in my >> setup because I customized it, and after ten years >> I tend to forget on occasion what I have customized >> and what I have not. > HA! Been there myself <GGGGG> >> I'm sorry about the Desktop >> referrence, I thought I was using a default setting >> for homepage and when I pressed my ALT-F1 the >> Desktop came up. Of course, F10 will also bring up >> the Desktop. > What puzzled me -- and still puzzles me -- is why you would want to use > Alt-F1 to call up the desktop when it can be done by default with a > single key, F10. > OTOH I have at times done things that I realized later weren't all that > necessary, or in some case not even sensible. > My default HomePage is a local file called mypage.htm that I have built > with links to various things that I find useful. Some of these links are > duplicates of things that i can get to in the default settings, but have > been put into the page just so I have a common starting point for them. > And others links in that page save me from having to go and search > hotlist to access them. > ... ,-./\ > ... / \ from Greg Mayman, in Adelaide, South Australia > ... \_,-*_/ "Queen City of The South" 34:55 S 138:36 E > ... v > Arachne at FreeLists > -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS -- -- This mail was written by a user of the Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --