Behind the features described elsewhere in this documentation, there are a couple of useful ones hidden in the menus to.
Save listing (“spc-files”)
This is yet another useful way to make it easy to pick files to search. Whenever you have one file or more in the list, you can use “Save listing...” from the “File”-menu. This will save the paths to the files in a new file, ending with the suffix “spc”. The next time you run the program, you simply open this file, and all the files in the list will quickly be there again! You can also double-click the “spc”-file in FInder, which makes it easy to have shortcuts to for example “My personal pages”, “Job pages” or “Bookmarks”. You can even put the spc-files in the “Aliases”-folder, and dozen of files will be added to the list with just a keystroke!
A “spc”-file must end with “.spc”, otherwise the program will read it as a standard HTML-page. You can open the file from within a text-editor, and you will see how it works.
Test URL
When choosing this menuitem, you can easily check any URL to see if it is reported OK, or if there is anything wrong with it. A typicall use is, for example, when the link “<A HREF=http://www.server.com/dir/page.htm>” is reported missing. First get “Show info”, the choose “Test URL”. The URL will automatically be displayed in the url-field. Try to remove “page.htm“, and you will see if the directory exist. By exprimenting with some different url:s, you may be able to figure out what is wrong. If you think you've spelled the URL incorrectly, just try different options here and you will see which one is the correct.
Check version
HTML LinkChecker already handles TCP-connections, so it was kind of easy to add a qucik and simpel way to check if there is a newer version of the program available. If you're connected to the Internet, simply click the “Check”-button, and you will be informed in a few seconds if your copy of the program is outdate, and if then, you can start a download of the new release with a simple click of the mouse. Use this feature frequently, and you will be up-to-date with the latest news and (eek!) bugfixes.
Note that no information about you, if you've paid, how many times you've used the program, etc, will be sent. I will count the number of times that this feature is used, but that's all. No tracking of your email, your IP, or whatever, and you don't have to be afraid of getting a “Why don't you pay?”-email in your mailbox.
Check free RAM
Sometimes you may want to know how much free memory we can play with. This can easily be done by choosing “Check version” with the shift- and option-keys down. You will also have the option to purge the memory (which will takes every single byte of free RAM and make it available), but if you're out of memory, it will probably not help you. There is a known problem with memory losses on 68 K-machines, please read the “Introduction”-chapter for more.
