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USEFUL COMMANDS
===============
     Scroll vertically with the arrows and Page Up and  Page
     Down keys.
     Follow a link typing `T', linknumber, `ENTER'.
     Press `F1' for a more detailed help screen.


KNOTS
=====
     KNOTS  is  a  DOS based html browser designed  for  the
     owners of low powered PCs, who wish to create WWW pages
     (or Knots of a net) at home, either for their personal,
     one  node intranet, or to be displayed later on a World
     Wide Web server.
     What  makes  KNOTS different to other DOS  browsers  is
     that  it  displays  the pages graphically,  to  give  a
     better idea of the final result.
     
     If  you find the program useful, please support  it  by
     sending $15 (or the equivalent in FF or UK pounds) to:

             Nick Gray
              Cidex 355
               38330 St Ismier
                FRANCE
     
             E-Mail:  N.Gray@ecs.soton.ac.uk
     
     If  you  cannot  afford the price, send me  a  postcard
     instead.
     Comments, queries, suggestions and bug reports are also 
     always welcome.
     

SUPPORTED FEATURES
==================
     KNOTS supports the following html FEATURES
     *    Types of Headings <h1> <h2> <h3> </h1> </h2> </h3>
     *    HTML page titles <title> </title>
     *    BOLD and /italics/ <b> </b> <i> </i>
     *    Improved handling of preformatted text <pre> </pre>
     *    Special Characters: &lt; [<] &gt; [>] &#65; [A]
New!            &copy; [(c)] &quot; ["]
New! *    Ordered and Unordered lists <ol> </ol> <ul> <li> <li> </ul>
     *    Paragraphs and line breaks <p> <br>
     *    Horizontal rules <hr>
     *    Hypertext Refs to local files <a href="index.htm">
New! *    Inline Image ALT tags <img src = "pic.gif" alt = "knot">
     
     *     The default home page is index.htm of the current
       directory.
     

KNOWN LIMITATIONS
=================
     *    Html pages cannot exceed 1800 lines.
     *    No more than 400 URL links per page.
     *    URLs cannot be longer than 100 characters.
     *    A history of only 100 links is stored.
     *    Ordered lists cannot exceed 127 items.
     *    The browser cannot deal with more than 200 files in a 
     directory.


DISTRIBUTING KNOTS
==================
     *    KNOTS is shareware so there are no restrictions to the
       number of personal copies you can make of it.
     *    You may freely distribute or upload KNOTS to Bulletin
       Boards and FTP sites and are encouraged to do so. Please
       leave  the  program in its original zipped  form,  named
       KNOTS1_2.ZIP. You may not modify KNOTS in any way. 
     *    If you would like to make money distributing KNOTS, 
       for example by selling a shareware disk that includes this
       program,  please contact the author,  Nick Gray for his 
       permission first.
     

DISCLAIMER
==========
     I  have  taken best care in ensuring that the  features
     supported by KNOTS are bug-free, and that KNOTS  reacts
     as similarly as possible to other popular navigators.
     However,  I make no guarantee about the correctness  of
     any part of the program.
     If  you  believe that bugs in this program could result
     in any type of damage, including financial loss, please
     do not use KNOTS.
     I will not accept responsibility for any kind of damage
     due to the use or misuse of KNOTS.
     
     
WATCH THIS SPACE
================
     New  versions of KNOTS are likely to be released in the
     near  future  to  encompass a  larger  amount  of  html
     features.  Later versions will also aim to improve  the
     speed  and  efficiency  of  the  browser  on  our  slow
     antiquities.
     
     Future improvements will include:
     
     *    Handling of html tables.
     *    Handling of html justification mark-ups - <center>, <right>
     *    Handling of html anchors within a file <a href="FileName#Label">
     *    A search function.
     *    A DOS shell and the possibility to invoke an external
       editor from within KNOTS to make html development faster.
     *    More efficient file manipulation so as not to be penalised 
       by slow disks.
     *    Better algorithms to improve the speed of updating the display.
     *    Support for other display types (primarily  CGA and Hercules).
     *    The possibilty to invoke external viewers for certain file types.
     

     The latest version of KNOTS can be found on the Web, at:

            http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~ng94/knots