Wen.Suite documentation

Wen.Suite is a suite dedicated to internet. With this program you have access to the web and can consult the e-mail and the newsgroups.

When you start Wen.Suite for the first time, it completes its installation. For that it creates some directories and some files.

CACHE: directory storing data from the web
MAIL: e-mail directory
NEWS: Newsgroups directory

Besides, some files will be created, their contents intends for Wen.Suite. So you have better not to edit them on your own because you may spoil the running of the program.

I/ Off-line program usage

With this mode, you only can consult local pages stored on the hard disk or CD-ROM. To use this possibily, go to the FILE/OPEN menu, press [CTRL]+[O] or click on the designed icon in the main window. A file selector opens up and you just have to select a HTML file (recognizable by its HTM extension) to start the off-line consultation. If the *.HTM extension is not proposed by default, it means you can use Wen.Suite to consult non-HTML documents. You can display ASCII documents and GIF or JPEG images. Moreover if you have a MODULES directory which contains DIR.TTP, you can specify anykind of file (*.*,*.HTM,TEST*.GIF) to display the list of files which correspond to this criterion. This list is a HTML document. You can click on one of the files to obtain the display, if you click on one directory, its contain is displayed (the specific directory ".." enables to go up the disk's tree towards to the root).

II/ Hypertext navigation

When HTLM documents are displayed, some parts enable to accede to another informations,thus the document is interactive. the clickable texts are underlined and displayed in blue (or with others colors according the authir's esthetic whishes). When the mouse get through those parts, it changes into a hand. It means that there is interactivity frolm this point. Some interactive links originate in pictures. In that case, those pictures are lined with the same color with which clickable texts are written (However the author can remove the border for esthetic reasons, then an hypertext's link is showed by the mouse shape). Of course in monochrom you can not differenciate the colors, so only the underlining and the mouse's shape permit to recognize the clickable parts. But with some experience you will be able to identify them very quickly.

III/ Basic navigation controls

If you want to get back to the previous page, you just have to click on the left arrow's icon, or by the menu NAVIGATION/BACK, or by [CTRL]+[<-], or by the pop-up menu you can access by the right button of the mouse (the means are various). Thus, you can move back as many pages you want until the first one. You also can get back to the first page by the HOME icon or by the NAVIGATION/HOME menu or by [CTRL]+[CRL-HOME]. There is also a control which enables to set off forward until the last consulted page. Watch out : if you consult 3 pages called A,B,C, and you get back to A and then, from this A page you consult a page called D, the forward/back controls allow to consult A and D only : the access to B is replaced with D, as C depends on B it disappear too.

However, there is another way to consult all the visited pages : it is the history. You can access to it by the NAVIGATION/HISTORY menu or[CTRL]+[H]. The history displays in HTML the displayed documents' list. If it is some HTML pages, the title of the page is written otherwise it is the name of the file.

If you often consult the same pages, you can add them to the index. The index is a list of documents displayed in HTML. each file is accessible with a simple click. You can add the current document to the index with the NAVIGATION/ADD-INDEX. You can display the index with the NAVIGATION/CONSULT menu or [CTRL]+[I].

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