If you are reading this with Webster, you probably don't need this information. But there are some useful things you can do to make webster look and work better on your machine.
Important Infomation
- Use the 'Edit Fonts' menu to change the fonts to something more suitable. Some styles (TeleType,
Code, Sample and Keyboard) should be a fixed spaced font.
- Providing you have TCPIP version 2.01 or later then http access to the internet should work assuming TCPIP is working and running.
- If you have version 2.04 or later of TCPIP, then ftp fetches may work as well. (The ftp fetcher is untested with a network and is very dependant on TCPIP working perfectly for correct operation)
- Read all the documentation, such as it is.
- Webster works with proper TCP/IP stack if you use ArcWebTCP or the supplied FreeWeb fetcher. (See the
How do I configure Webster to access the Internet / World Wide Web
question in the FAQ.
Useful Infomation
- Inline GIF Images are currently decoded by a utility called gif2spr.
Alternatively you can change the
Gif Decoder
in the Viewers
section of the Choices windows and use any GIF to sprite converter with a command line interface.
- JPEG images (Inline or as the destination of links) need ChangeFSI for decoding. All that is require is that RISC OS has 'seen' the application.
Webster in a Read Only Archive or Filesystem
If you intend to run Webster from a readonly archive or filesystem, you need to change the following
- The Webster$CacheDir line in the !Run file. I suggest setting it to <Wimp$ScrapDir>.WebsterI.Cache.
- The Webster$XCacheDir line in the !Run file. I suggest setting it to <Wimp$ScrapDir>.WebsterI.XCache.
- The Webster$Choices line in the !Run file. I suggest setting it to <Wimp$ScrapDir>.WebsterI.Choices.
- The Webster$Hotlists line in the !Run file. I suggest setting it to <Wimp$ScrapDir>.WebsterI.hotLists.
- Running Webster should then create the directories. (Though you may have to create them your self if the examples shown are not used)
- You can use any valid path except <Wimp$ScrapDir>.Webster as this is used for temporary files.