Arachne options

Home Page:

Note: Home Page will be accepted only in registered versions of Arachne. See registration info.
Network settings:
Your e-Mail adress (user@domain)

Your personal name

POP3 username (mailbox name)

POP3 password

POP3 server (port 110, incoming mail)

Keep downloaded mail on server
SMTP server (port 25, outgoing mail)

NNTP server (port 119, USENET news)

IRC server (machine:port)

HTTP proxy server (machine:port)

Do not use proxy server
Inline images
Auto-load images
Fast JPEGs (low quality)
Image refresh delay during download
10 sec (Pentium and >64 kbps)
20 sec (486)
60 sec (386 and less)
Local settings:
Cache path (ie. C:\CACHE\)

Mail path (ie. H:\MAIL\)

Download path (ie. A:\)

History file (ie. H:\TADYJSEM.BYL)

Cache index (ie. C:\TOHLEUZ.MAM)

Warning: Index sharing (on LAN or in multitasking enviroment) is not yet implemented!

Path and file names must end with '\' and must be configured according to real situation on your PC or LAN. Arachne will not create non existing directories. See also notes about using Arachne in LAN..


Screen saver
Disabled 1 min
3 min 5 min
10 min 30 min
1 hour 24 hours ;-)
Note: You can see screen saver preview by clicking on clock on status bar.
Use icons when surfing local disk (nice, but too slow on my 386...)
Use <ESC&rt; key to exit Arachne
MIME, Plug-ins, DGI
Arachne was designed to co-operate with other DOS applications when viewing documents of MIME types which are not built in. These "plug-ins" can for example view moovies, play sounds or convert complicated MIME types (like image/jpeg) to built in MIME or file types (like *.GIF or *.BMP). Arachne is also able to pass data from HTML query to applications, which understand DGI (Dos Gateway Interface) argument format (something like "offline CGI scripts"). Plug-ins and DGI applications are configured in esoteric configuration file MIME.CFG.
Plain text configuration file
You can view and edit directly the main configuration file ARACHNE.CFG.