Arachne options

Home Page:

Search Page:

Note: Home Page and Search Page will be accepted only in single-user or commercial registered versions of Arachne. Multi-user keys force fixed homepage. See registration info.
Network settings:
HTTP proxy server (machine:port)

Do not use proxy server
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)

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 (eg. C:\CACHE\)

Mail path (eg. H:\MAIL\)

Download path (eg. A:\)

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

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

Index sharing (for multitasking)

Note: Pathes must end with '\' and must exist. Arachne will not create non existing directories. See also using Arachne in LAN..


User interface
Use icons for local disk (slow)
Use <ESC&rt; key to exit Arachne
Use large system font
Scrollbar size
Narrow Normal
Wide Heavy
Scrollbar style
Arachne Windows
NextStep Experimental
Screen saver
Disabled 1 min
3 min 5 min
10 min 30 min
1 hour 24 hours ;-)
Note: You can see screen saver preview after clicking on clock on status bar.
Definition of <F3&rt; key
Always use string
'http://' if online, 'file:*.*' if offline
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.