WHAT'S NEW

• The EGA, CGA and Hercules versions are now all kept in a single executable file. Check out KNOTS.INI if your computer crashes: it probably cannot display EGA.

• The keys have changed: <Backspace> (Go Back) is now replaced by <left arrow>. <TAB> (Forwards) is replaced by <right arrow>. <ESC> still goes home.

• The file access has changed: KNOTS no longer uses the DOS conventions for naming files, and now uses real URLs (Uniform Resource Locator).

  The URL can point to a local file using the form: file:///C|/dir/subdir/file.ext

  The URL can also be a remote URL where the page is cached locally: http://www.place.org/dir/subdir/file.html

  Please note that you may have to replace '\' by '/' and 'C:\' by 'file:///C|/' in your own pages, which makes them portable to the Web.

• Knots uses a File Allocation Table (FAT) to specify where all remote URLs are cached. If you know where your site will be hosted, or if you have downloaded pages, you can add an entry to the FAT file. The FAT convention is: each line contains a mapping of the form <URL><SPACE><FILENAME> such as: http://www.place.org/dir/file.html C:\CACHE\FILE.HTM

  Any links to the remote URL will open the local file.

  For example, follow this link to pretend these pages are hosted on the Knots Web site

• A self-documenting configuration file is included where users can specify the Graphic Mode to use, the position of the FAT file, whether to display the ShowLocation bar and the URL of the first (Home) Page.

• Pages writen using special extended ASCII characters instead of HTML character codes are now properly viewed to make non-english pages more readable.

• An optional display location bar now displays the URL of the current page.