Copyright: Internet Neighborhood(tm) v2.0 Copyright 1996-1998, KnoWare, Inc.
Citation: KnoWare's Internet Neighborhood v2.0 Help


Internet Neighborhood
Internet Neighborhood v2.4

Online Help System

Copyright© 1996-1998 KnoWare, Inc.

All rights reserved.

This file contains context sensitive help for the various dialog boxes in Internet Neighborhood. If you would like to access the Online Help System for Internet Neighborhood, click here.


Hide directories starting with “.”

If checked, Internet Neighborhood will not display any directories which begin with a period “.”. Uncheck this box if you want Internet Neighborhood to display all directories, regardless of their format.


Hide files starting with “.”

If checked, Internet Neighborhood will not display any files which begin with a period “.”. Uncheck this box if you want Internet Neighborhood to display all files, regardless of their format.


Resolve Symbolic Links

If checked, Internet Neighborhood will attempt to resolve all symbolic links which it encounters. A symbolic link is basically the UNIX/FTP equivalent to a Windows 95 shortcut. It’s a reference to some other directory or file on the server.

  If checked, Each time a directory listing is generated, Internet Neighborhood will detect symbolic links and resolve them to determine if they are links to a directory or links to a file.

  If unchecked, Internet Neighborhood will assume that all symbolic links are directory links. This  will make links to files appear as directories and they will be unavailable!  The trade-off is performance. Not resolving links is faster, but resolving links is more accurate.  The preferred method is to have Internet Neighborhood resolve symbolic links.


Show messages from FTP sites

If checked, Internet Neighborhood will display informational messages returned from the remote FTP server. Some FTP servers will send brief ‘welcome’ or status messages when you log into their site. Internet Neighborhood can detect these messages and display them in a dialog box for your review. Uncheck this box if you do not wish Internet Neighborhood to display any informational messages which it encounters.


E-Mail Address

Anonymous FTP requests that you send your EMAIL address to the remote server as the password when logging into the system. Each time you set up a new FTP site, the Wizard will prime the Password field with this email address (given that you are logging in anonymously).


Default Transfer Directory

Enter the name of the local directory where Internet Neighborhood can store files which are downloaded from remote systems.  You can customize your Default Transfer Directory on a per-site basis. You can also select Download To.. from the menu which will allow you to dynamically change the Default Transfer Directory for the current download session.


Send Buffer Size

Specify the size of the internal buffer used to send data to the remote FTP server. You can enter any value between 32 bytes and 4096 bytes, inclusive.  The default value of 255 bytes is usually sufficient for  most implementations.  If you are having communication problems, this number may need to be adjusted.


Receive Buffer Size

Specify the size of the internal buffer used to receive data from the remote FTP server. You can enter any value between 32 bytes and 4096 bytes, inclusive.  The default value of 255 bytes is usually sufficient for most implementations. .  If you are having communication problems, this number may need to be adjusted.


Preserve Case (no conversion)

Select this option if you want Internet Neighborhood to ignore all filename conversions during uploads. If selected, filenames are stored ‘as is’ on the remote server with no case conversion whatsoever. This is the preferred choice.


Convert Names to Upper Case

Select this option if you want Internet Neighborhood to convert filenames to all uppercase during uploads.


Convert Names to Lower Case

Select this option if you want Internet Neighborhood to convert filenames to all lowercase characters during uploads


Use PASSIVE Mode

Check this box to enable PASSIVE mode file transfers between Internet Neighborhood and the remote FTP site. In certain instances, usually when you’re behind a router based firewall, you will need to turn this option on. Check with your system administrator for the correct setting of PASSIVE mode.


Timeout Period

Specify the number of seconds which Internet Neighborhood will wait for a reply from the remote FTP server before canceling the current operation.  You can enter any value between 5 and 90 seconds. If you are experiencing periodic ‘timeouts’ from remote servers, you may want to increase this value.


Binary Mode

Select this mode to ensure that Internet Neighborhood transfers data byte-for-byte between your local computer and the remote FTP site (and vice-versa). If selected, no translation of any kind will occur to the data during transmission. This is the default.


ASCII Mode

Select this mode to have Internet Neighborhood treat all file transfers as ASCII text. This mode is NOT suggested for transferring binary (.exe) files.


Auto Detect

Select this mode to have Internet Neighborhood choose which file types will be transferred as ASCII text. All files which have extensions, or whose filenames end in any one of the strings specified in the ASCII Files listbox will be transferred as an ASCII text file. ALL remaining types will be transferred as BINARY types.


ASCII Files

This box contains the list of file extensions and endings which Internet Neighborhood uses when attempting to determine which files to transfer as ASCII text.


Auto File Types

Enter a new file extension and/or ending in this space. You can then click the ‘>> Add >>’ button to add this item to the list of valid file extensions which Internet Neighborhood will use in AUTO mode.


Add extension

Click this button to add the new file extension to the listbox of available file extensions.


Delete extension

Click this button to remove the currently selected file extension from the list of available items.


Generate Logfile

Check this button to enable Internet Neighborhood’s internal logging option. If checked, Internet Neighborhood will generate a logfile (specified by  the Logfile Name) containing important information about the current Internet Neighborhood session.  You can turn debugging OFF at any time, but  once you enable debugging, you will need to restart Windows in order for it to become enabled.  Information in this file is used by KnoWare’s customer support representatives to track down the cause of any problems which you may encounter.


Logfile Name

Enter the fully qualified path and filename for the file which will contain the debugging information. Internet Neighborhood will write its log information to this file. Information in this file is used by KnoWare’s customer support representatives to track down the cause of any problems which you may encounter.


Firewall Type

Select the appropriate firewall type for your system. Contact your system administrator for assistance in configuring Internet Neighborhood for use with your firewall.


Firewall Host Name

Enter the IP address of your firewall host machine. Contact your system administrator for assistance in configuring Internet Neighborhood for use with your firewall.


Firewall Username

Enter the username used for logging into your firewall host. Contact your system administrator for assistance in configuring Internet Neighborhood for use with your firewall.


Firewall Password

Enter the password used for logging into your firewall host. Contact your system administrator for assistance in configuring Internet Neighborhood for use with your firewall.


 Firewall Access

Check this box if you are behind a firewall. If so, you will need to configure the remaining firewall settings. Contact your system administrator for assistance in configuring Internet Neighborhood for use with your firewall.


Firewall Port#

Enter the PORT number of your firewall host. The default of 21 is sufficient for most installations. Contact your system administrator for assistance in configuring Internet Neighborhood for use with your firewall.


URL or Host Name

Enter the full URL (Uniform Resource Locator), the domain name, or the dotted IP address of the site you wish to connect to. For example, to connect to Netscape’s FTP site, you could enter the URL of FTP://FTP.NETSCAPE.COM or you could enter Netscape’s FTP domain name of FTP.NETSCAPE.COM. You could also enter an IP address, such as 195.23.124.88 or ftp://195.23.124.88  Internet Neighborhood will accept any of the these.


Virtual Host

Check this box if the FTP which you are connecting to supports virtual hosting.


URL Port Number

Enter the port number used to identify the FTP server. The default of 21 is usually correct. Contact the FTP site’s administrator if you need to change this setting


Login as Anonymous

If checked, Internet Neighborhood will send 'anonymous' as the username, and your EMAIL address as the password when logging into the remote site. Your EMAIL address is specified on the main Internet Neighborhood property sheet.


Username

Enter your username on the remote FTP site.

  If ‘Login as Anonymous’ is checked, ‘anonymous’ will be sent as your username.

  If ‘Login as Anonymous’ is not checked, you may either enter your username for the remote site, or you may leave this box blank. If you leave this box blank, you will be prompted for your username when you initially connect to the remote site.


Password

Enter your password on the remote FTP site.

   If ‘Login as Anonymous’ is checked, your EMAIL address will be sent as your password. Your EMAIL address is specified on the main Internet Neighborhood property sheet.

   If ‘Login as Anonymous’ is not checked, you may either enter your password for the remote site, or you may leave this box blank. If you leave this box blank, you will be prompted for your password when you initially connect to the remote site.


Account

Enter your account name on the remote FTP site.

   There are certain FTP sites which will setup individual accounts for various users. If you have an account on the target FTP site, you can enter the account name here. If you leave this box blank, and an account name is required on the remote FTP server, you will be prompted to enter the account name.


Unlock

Clicking this button will bring up the Registration/Serial Number dialog box, which you can use to enter a valid registration number for Internet Neighborhood.


Serial Number

Enter a valid Internet Neighborhood product registration code. This code is supplied to you by KnoWare, Inc. or one of its certified resellers.


New Folder Name

Enter a valid name for the new folder. The folder will be created as a sub-directory of the currently selected FTP site or directory.


Owner - Read

This box will be checked if the owner of this object has ‘read’ permissions on it.


Owner - Write

This box will be checked if the owner of this object has ‘write’ or ‘delete’ permissions on it.


Owner - Execute

This box will be checked if the owner of this object has ‘execute’ permissions on it.


Group - Read

This box will be checked if members of the owner’s group have ‘read’ permissions to the object.


Group - Write

This box will be checked if members of the owner’s group have ‘write’ permissions to the object.


Group - Execute

This box will be checked if members of the owner’s group have ‘execute’ permissions to the object.


World - Read

This box will be checked if everyone has ‘read’ permission on this object.


World - Write

This box will be checked if everyone has ‘write’ permission on this object.


World - Execute

This box will be checked if everyone has ‘execute’ permission on this object.


Object Name

This is the name of the file or folder. If this is a link, the left side of the ‘->’ is the ‘link name’ and the right side is the real path and name.


Domain

This is the domain name of the FTP server which the file or directory resides on.


Full Path

This is the fully qualified path of the object.


Object Type

This is the object type; which can be:
   Object - this is a standard file object.

   File Link - this is a symbolic link which points to another file.

   Directory - this is a folder or directory

   Directory Link - this is a symbolic link which points to a directory


Size

This is the size, in Kilobytes and in bytes, of the object.


Date

This is the last modification date of the object.


Group

This is the name of the group to which the owner of this object belongs.


Owner

The name of the owner of the object.


OK

Click on this button to save your changes and close the current window.


Cancel

Click on this button to close the current window; ignoring any changes which were made.


Registration Code/Serial Number

Displays the owners product registration code/serial number. This number is needed to unlock the full functionality of Internet Neighborhood.


Local Path

Displays the local directory for the current activity.


Filename

Displays the name of the file which is currently being transferred.


Remote Path

Displays the remotedirectory for the current activity.


Save Information

If checked, the supplied information will be saved with the FTP site’s profile.  In the future, you will not be prompted to enter this information


D/M/Y - Euro Format

Displays dates in European Day/Month/Year format.


M/D/Y - US Format

Displays dates in US Month/Day/Year format.


12hr clock (am/pm)

Displays time with a 12 hour clock format using am & pm suffixes.


24hr clock

Displays time using a 24 hour clock format.


Open/View the file

Select this option to have the file opened/executed using the standard application associated with this object type. For example, if the file is a .DOC file, double-clicking on the file will open it in your default document viewer such as wordpad.


Download the file

Select this option to have the selected file downloaded to the default download directory when you double-click on it.


Use Index Files

Select this option if you would like Internet Neighborhood to download and process any index files which it may find on remote FTP sites. An index file is a file, usually named index.txt or 00index.txt, which contains the names & short descriptions of all of the files in the current directory of the remote FTP site which you are connected to. Internet Neighborhood can process this file and match up the descriptions to the filename & display them on your screen.


Index Filelist

This list contains names of files which, if encountered on the remote FTP server, will be processed as index files for the current directory.


Index Filename

Enter the name of the file to be added to the of index files.


Add

Click this button to add the new filename to the list.


Remove

Click this button to remove the selected file(s) from the list.


Index File Size

Enter the maximum size, in Kilobytes,  of an index file to be processed. If Internet Neighborhood encounters an index file which is larger than the size specified in this field, it will not be processed.


Display Hidden Files

Click this button to enable the ability to display hidden files and folders which may reside on remote FTP servers.


Hidden File Specification

Enter the remote FTP server specific LIST command flags which will cause the FTP server to return a list of hidden files and folders.


Connection Retry Count

Enter the maximum number of times that Internet Neighborhood will attempt to connect to a remote FTP site.


Connection Retry Interval

Enter the number of seconds that Internet Neighborhood will wait between connection retries.


Preserve Date/Timestamp

Check this box to have Internet Neighborhood preserve the date/timestamp of files during downloading.


View Logfile

Click this button to have Internet Neighborhood display the current contents of the Logfile.


Cache Remote Directory Information

Click this button to enable the Internet Neighborhood Caching feature. When enabled, Internet Neighborhood will cache directory listings for remote FTP servers. You will then be able to go off-line and browse the contents of the FTP server, but locally.


Clear Cache

Click this button to clear the contents of Internet Neighborhood's local directory cache.


Site Description

Enter an optional description to further identify this FTP site.


FTP Server Type

By changing the FTP Server Type, you can alter the way in which the sample directory line is parsed. If the sample directory line is not being parsed correctly, change the server type until the information appears correctly


Browse for filename

Press this button to browse and change the location of the logfile.


Browse for filename

Press this button to browse for the desired path/filename.


Displays the approximate rate at which Internet Neighborhood is transferring the files.


Displays the approximate amount of data which Internet Neighborhood has transferred.


Displays the approximate amount of time which has elapsed since the beginning of the current file transfer.


Displays the approximate amount of time remaining until the completion of the current file transfer.


Apply All

Click this button to apply these settings globally across all of the currently defined FTP sites.


Category Name

Enter the name of the new Internet Neighborhood category.


CHMOD

Press this button to apply the new file permissions for the object.


Add Command

Adds the new initialization command to the list.


Delete Command

Deletes the currently selected initializaiton command from the list.


Move Down

Moves the currently selected item down in the list.


Move Up

Moves the currently selected item up in the list.


Initialization Command

Enter an optional initialization command to be executed on the remote FTP server upon initial connection.


Command List

Contains a list of initialization commands to be executed on the remote FTP server upon initial connection.


New Remote Directory

Enter the name of a new directory for the remote FTP server.


Delim Char

Contains the default directory delimitation character for the remote FTP server.


Contains a sample of the directory listing generated by the remote FTP server.


Group

Displays the name of the group to which the owner of this object is a member.


Owner

Displays the name of the owner of this file/folder.


Perms

Displays the permissions for the file/folder.


Remote File Mask

Enter a file mask, such as A* or  123*, which will be used to filter out the files which are displayed on the remote server.


SYST

Displays the value returned from the remote FTP server as a result of the SYST command.


Use New FTP Engine

Check this box if you want to use the new multi-threaded Internet Neighborhood FTP engine.


Initial Remote Directory

This is the 'default' directory on the remote FTP site. When you first establish a connection to the remote FTP server, you will need to be placed into a starting directory. Most FTP servers will put you into some basic default directory, but if you wish to change where you start off, enter a different directory here. This can either be an absolute directory like '/pub', or a relative directory like 'pub'. the difference is that the absolute directory is just that, absolute; it will ignore the location that the FTP server decides to put you, and put you in the '/pub' by force. The relative directory is relative to where ever the ftp server decides to put you.

If you have an account on the FTP server which you are connecting too, you can usually leave this entry blank.


FTP Site Name

Enter a user friendly name for your FTP site.


PWD

Displays the result of the initial PWD command issued to the remote FTP server.