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     |/|/|                    Knots html browser
     |/|\|\
     |/| \|\       ver 1.3  Copyright © 1996  Nick Gray.
     |/|  \|\                       EGA
     |/|   \|\      (also available for CGA and Hercules)

• Use the arrow keys and Page Up and Page Down to scroll vertically through the document.
• Follow a link typing `T', linknumber, `ENTER'.
• Press `F1' for a more detailed help screen.

KNOTS

KNOTS is a DOS based html browser designed for the owners of low powered PCs, who wish to create WWW pages (or Knots of a net) at home, either for their personal, one node intranet, or to be displayed later on a World Wide Web server.
What makes KNOTS different to other DOS browsers is that it displays the pages graphically, to give a better idea of the final result.

You may use Knots freely for 30 days for evaluation purposes. If you are still using Knots after this period, you must register by sending $15 (or the equivalent in FF or UK pounds) to:

             Nick Gray
              Cidex 355
               38330 St Ismier
                FRANCE

             E-Mail:  N.Gray@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Registered users are exempt from the registration fee for future versions of Knots and therefore safe from future fee increases. If you truely cannot afford the price send me a postcard instead!
Comments, queries, suggestions and bug reports are also always welcome.

SUPPORTED FEATURES

HTML Headings and page titles
BOLD,  /italics/ and preformatted text
Paragraphs and line breaks
Horizontal rules
Special Characters:  < > A © "
Hypertext Refs to local files <a href="index.htm">
Inline Image ALT tags
NEW!  International Character codes:  &eacute; &Ntilde;
NEW!  ADDRESS, STRONG, EM, and CODE tags
NEW!  Improved rendering of fonts
NEW!  Three versions of Knots are currently available from the new
     KNOTS home page: knot1_3c.zip for CGA graphics, knot1_3e.zip for
     EGA and knot1_3h.zip for Hercules.


The default home page is index.htm of the current directory.

KNOWN LIMITATIONS

1. Html pages cannot exceed 1800 lines.
2. No more than 400 URL links per page.
3. URLs cannot be longer than 100 characters.
4. A history of only 100 links is stored.
5. Ordered lists cannot exceed 127 items.
6. The browser cannot deal with more than 200 files in a directory.

DISTRIBUTING KNOTS

• KNOTS is shareware so there are no restrictions to the number of personal copies you can make of it.
• You may freely distribute or upload KNOTS to Bulletin Boards, FTP and Web sites and are encouraged to do so. Please leave the program in its original zipped form, named KNOT1_3E.ZIP. You may not modify KNOTS in any way.
• If you would like to make money distributing KNOTS, for example by selling a shareware disk that includes this program, please contact Nick Gray for permission first.

DISCLAIMER

I have taken best care in ensuring that the features supported by KNOTS are bug-free, and that KNOTS reacts as similarly as possible to other popular navigators.
However, I make no guarantee about the correctness of any part of the program.
If you believe that bugs in this program could result in any type of damage, including financial loss, please do not use KNOTS.
I will not accept responsibility for any kind of damage due to the use or misuse of KNOTS.

WATCH THIS SPACE

New versions of KNOTS are likely to be released in the near future to encompass a larger amount of html features. Later versions will also aim to improve the speed and efficiency of the browser on our slow antiquities.

Future improvements will include:

Handling of html tables.
Handling of html justification mark-ups - <center>, <right>
Handling of html anchors within a file <a href="File#Label">, </a>
A search function.
A DOS shell and the possibility to invoke an external editor
       from within KNOTS to make html development faster.
The possibilty to invoke external viewers for certain file types.

http://www.soton.ac.uk/~ng194/knots