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USEFUL COMMANDS
- Scroll vertically with the arrow 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
* HTML page titles
* BOLD and /italics/
* Preformatted text < /pre>
* Unordered lists
* Paragraphs and line breaks
* Horizontal rules
* Hypertext Refs to local files
* 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.
- 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_0.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 Nick Gray for 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 ordered lists - ,
* Handling of html tables
* Handling of html justification mark-ups - ,
* Handling of html anchors within a file
* 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.
The latest version of KNOTS can be found on the Web,
at: