Using Arachne profiles and scripts

ACF - Arachne Configuration Files

ACF files are simply copies of the ARACHNE.CFG file. Once you configure and fine-tune Arachne for some Internet provider, you can create two copies of the ARACHNE.CFG file each containing a different user name, e-mail address, POP3 account, signature, mail directory, hotlist, etc. Or you can use two ACF profiles for two different providers but both with the same personal information.

ACF files are maintained using a special Profile Manager, accessible, for example, from the Desktop | Options page or from the PPP dialer screen.

ASF - Arachne Script Files

ASF scripts are just lists of URLs to visit, nothing more. You can create scripts using any text editor... For example:

MYSCRIPT.ASF
arachne:dialer smtp: pop3: reload:http://arachne.cz/ reload:http://slashdot.org/ arachne:hangup reload:file://inbox.dgi file:d:\mp3\wakeup.mp3 file://inbox.dgi

The special prefix "reload:" tells Arachne to always reload a specified URL; without this prefix, Arachne would use the cached copy of the object (if available). An example: launching of MP3 file playback. To do that, you have to install some plug-in capable of playing MP3 files (e.g., QuickView or XTC-player), and the MP3 file included in the script must exist of course.

To start an ASF script, open it in Arachne: *.asf. A typical Arachne screen from which you can launch scripts is the PPP dialer screen.

Arachne currently doesn't offer any tool for creating ASF scripts (with the exception of "Request all links" and "Audio playlist" features - but they don't produce user-editable scripts). You are expected to use some external ASCII text editor. If necessary, you can use QuicKpad to write a script file and save it to file with an .ASF extension using the Ctrl+W hotkey.

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