Using Arachne profiles and scripts

ACF - Arachne Configuration Files

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

ACF files are maintained using special Profile manager, accessible for example from Desktop | Options page or from 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

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

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

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

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