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                         WebCopier version 2.1a 
                               July 2000

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HOW TO USE THIS DOCUMENT
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CONTENTS
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1. Introduction

2. Installation

3. Release Notes

4. Changed default settings

5. New additions to FAQ

6. Program status and distribution

7. Contact Information

8. How website preview works

9. Third-party copyrighted material


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1. Introduction
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WebCopier is a powerful offline browser that downloads Web sites and 
stores them locally. It gives you instant access to critical Web sites 
at any time, regardless of where you are. WebCopier performs precise 
links searching, including JavaScript parsing, it can download up to 100 
files simultaneously and print entire Web site or only specific part of 
it. WebCopier supports proxy servers, allows to specify account name 
and password to access secure Web sites. Advanced features include 
website preview, SSL (HTTPS) support, Agent Identification, scheduler, 
templates, Url and file filters, wizards, ability to resume download, 
dialer, Shockwave files support, different language modules.


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2. Installation
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To install WebCopier:

- If you have downloaded file named "wcopier.exe", just run it. 
- If the file name has extension ".zip", you need to decompress it 
  with a program such as WinZip.  Then run the file "setup.exe". 


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3. Release Notes
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WebCopier 2.1a Improvements:
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- The program is more flexible on resuming a previously stopped download.

- Provides better user control on CPU usage.

- Improved speed of big HTML files parsing.

- Faster stops downloads, aborted by user.

- The program loads big projects much faster.

- Improved stability on large sites downloads.

WebCopier 2.1a Bug fixes:
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- After a scheduled download is finished, the last project may loose it's File 
filters.

- When the scheduler runs, it may wait with the question "Initialize Contents 
tree?".

- Downloads scheduled "Yearly" do not start.

- When setting scheduled download time, cannot enter an hour in the hours space, 
must use up or down arrows.



WebCopier 2.1 New features:
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- Website preview
Website preview allows you to see the website structure (the Contents tree) 
before you start the actual download. For information on website preview, please 
see the “How website preview works” section.

- Multiple selections in the Contents tree
The program is using Ctrl and Shift buttons to let user select multiple tree 
nodes and apply some actions (“Delete”, “Add URL Filter”, “Select for next 
Download”, and “Properties”) to all of them at once.

- The Contents tree printing
To print the Contents tree use the “File / Print Contents” menu.

- Limit the number of the files shown in Contents tree
To minimize memory requirements, by default, the program shows only first 500 
tree nodes. The value can be changed and the limitation can be removed in 
“Project Settings / Contents” window.

- The contents tree has improved keyboard support
User can press “Enter” button to view selected tree file in the Integrated 
browser. Use “Delete” button to delete the tree node(s).

- Enhanced Properties window
The contents tree “Properties” window show more information about each file. 
Also you can get useful information about the whole website by looking at the 
properties of the root node of the Contents tree.

- Improved Download Info window
The window shows:
 - The download speed
 - Number of Found / Processed files
 - Elapsed time
The window allows:
 - Abort the download of one selected file
 - Control the Internet connection bandwidth and CPU utilization by using 
   the speed throttle

- Agent Identification
Sometimes it’s necessary to change the way WebCopier represents itself to other 
Web servers. This is called “Agent Identification”, and the default setting is 
“WebCopier”. The program has several preset values you can choose from in 
“Project Settings / Advanced / Other” window. Also you can type your own 
identification text. Usually the Agent Identification value doesn’t affect most 
websites. However, sometimes you may experience problems with downloading some 
protected websites until the correct Agent Identification is be set.

- Option to download only the files, that failed before
If some files have not been downloaded due to any kind of errors, next time you 
will have a chance to download them again.

- SSL (HTPPS) support

- Project autosave
The program can save the project data automatically every N minutes.
The time interval can be set and the option can be disabled in the “WebCopier 
Options / General” window. The default time interval is 5 minutes.

- Improved large projects support
Opens large projects much faster, also shows special message. 
If the Contents tree has several thousand files, the project will be opened much 
faster, then in previous versions, and special message will be show to let user 
know what program is doing.

- Links update confirmation message
It gives user a chance to cancel the link update, even when the option “Update 
Links automatically” (“Project Settings / Advanced / Download” window) is set.

- Directory name macros
The directory, where the downloaded files will be saved, may include special 
macros ([%d] and [%t]). The macros can be used when you need to separate each 
project download, because, by default, each next download might overwrite files, 
downloaded before. The [%d] macro inserts the current day it the directory name, 
when the [%t] macro inserts the current time.

- WebCopier remembers directory names
WebCopier remembers the last directory the user used to saved the downloaded 
files and the project file.

- New template keywords
The program has several new template keywords to support new project 
parameters.

- HTML files with nonstandard extensions
WebCopier appends HTM extension to all HTML files, that have nonstandard 
extension (for example, ASP). Otherwise, to view HTML files with nonstandard 
extensions, a special web server has to be running on your computer.

- Registered version
The program can be registered to get rid of the advertisement, and be able to 
minimize the Download Info window.


WebCopier 2.1 Bug fixes:
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- Dial-up connection list could be empty in Windows 95.

- Dialer might fail to connect to the Internet (if you are already connected), 
and download will be canceled.

- WebCopier might fail to find Netscape bookmarks if the profile(s) files are 
saved in non-default directory.

- If the user closes a project and tries to open it right away, the program 
won’t be able to open it, but will open any other project.

- If the user is using the option “Update Files / Never”, the program will open 
a file (but won’t download it), even when it already exist on his disk.

- Create a new Project by using default template. The Contents tree still shows 
"New Project", regardless of the project name saved in the template.

- The “Update Links” procedure double checks that the file is indeed HTML file.

- Several bugs that can cause inaccurate site download have been fixed.


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4. Changed default settings
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The following default values have been changed in the version 2.1:

- The “Max. File Size” parameter (“Project Settings / Download” window) default 
value is 1 MB, used to be 2 MB.

- The “Initialize Tree Before download” option (“Project Settings / Contents” 
window) default setting is unchecked.

- When the user creates a new URL filter, the “Filter Action” by default is 
“Include”, used to be “Exclude”.

- The "Offsite Links" parameter ("Project Settings / Advanced / Download" 
window) is available only when you have specified to load files from "All 
Servers", or if you have at least one URL filter with the action "Include" 
("Project Settings / Advanced / URL Filters" window).


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5. New additions to FAQ
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Download
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18. When I start the download, all I get is the first page and that is all. 
What I might be doing wrong?

There are two common reasons why WebCopier downloads only few files from a web 
sites.
- The rest of the web site is located on a different server. 
By default WebCopier downloads files from the starting server only. To remove 
this restriction select “All Servers” option in “Project Settings / Advanced 
/ URL Filters” window or create URL Filters that allow download from this 
server.
- The downloaded files do not have common HTML file extension, like .htm 
or .html. 
For example, if a file (which contains HTML code) has extension .dll, it 
won’t be considered by WebCopier as HTML file and, as the result, won’t be 
searched for HTML links. To inform WebCopier that it should consider this 
file as HTML file, add extension “dll” to HTML group in “Project Settings / 
Advanced / File Filters” window.

19. Every time I want to continue to download a project I saved before, the 
program starts to download from the beginning the website. What's wrong?

- When you start download, choose the option "Continue previous download". This 
option is available when you have downloaded the project before, and the 
download was not completed.
- Use the option “Update Files / When Changed” (“Project Settings / Advanced / 
Download” window). This is default setting. To check, have the files been 
changed since the previous download, or not, the program has to start the 
checking from the very beginning of the website. If the file was not changed, 
it won't be downloaded again.
- Uncheck the “Initialize Tree before Download” option (“Project Settings / 
Contents” window). The fact, that at the beginning of the downloaded the tree 
disappears, may cause confusion, you may think that all the files will be 
downloaded again. In version 2.1 (and higher) the “Initialize Tree before 
Download” option is unchecked by default.
- You may set the “Update Files” option to “Never” (“Project Settings / 
Advanced / Download” window). In this case, if the file does exist on your 
disk, it won’t even be checked for any changes and won't be downloaded.

Browsing
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6. How can I change the default language settings in the Integrated browser and 
the Contents tree? 

To change language settings in the Integrated browser:
- load file in the browser
- click right mouse button on the browser
- go to Encoding menu 
- select your language
To change language settings in the Contents tree:
- open “WebCopier Options / Advanced” window
- click on the “Contents Font” button
- choose the font which supports your language 


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6. Program status and distribution
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The program is FREE and freely distributable.

WebCopier uses the Radiate (formerly Aureate Media) advertising system to show 
banner advertisements. It helps to keep the program FREE. 

A form is shown when first using the Radiate system so you may fill in as much 
or as little demographic information about yourself as you want. All information 
provided in this way is OPTIONAL and is NOT PERSONALLY identifiable information. 
No other information is gathered from your computer. 

Please read Radiate privacy policy ("http://www.radiate.com/privacy.html") 
for more information.

There have been a number of concerns from people about whether the 
Aureate/Radiate system is "Spying" on people, monitoring web surfing, etc.  

THESE REPORTS ARE NOT TRUE.
Please read our Privacy statement at 
"http://www.maximumsoft.com/index_privacy.html" for more information.

If you do not want to be see any advertisement, you can register WebCopier at 
"http://www.maximumsoft.com/index_reg.html" to receive the registered version 
without the advertising system.


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7. Contact Information
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E-mail:		wcopier@maximumsoft.com
Internet:	http://www.maximumsoft.com/

You also can register to receive a free newsletter about latest WebCopier 
releases.
- Go to WebCopier site.
- Replace the text “Enter e-mail here” by your e-mail address.
- Press the “Sign up! button.


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8. How website preview works
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Website preview allows you to see the website structure (the Contents tree) 
before you start the actual download. 

You can use this feature to:
- see the website structure only,
- find the site parts you are interested in, and download only them by 
  setting URL filters,
- get an estimation of the total website size.

Website preview is not an immediate process. It may take some time to scan, but 
it will be faster then the actual download.

The reason –- web servers, in contrast with file servers, usually do not give 
the information about site structure.
It means that WebCopier has to load the first HTML file, parse it (find all HTML 
links), load the first found link, parse it, and so on.

That’s why to show the site structure, the program must download and analyze all 
HMTL files. After that you have a choice to keep these files, or to delete them 
automatically . It’s controlled by “Keep HTML files” option in “Project Settings 
/ Advanced / Other” window.

Also, during the preview, WebCopier can find each website file size, to let you 
know the total site size. This option is called “Detailed scanning”. When this 
option is on, the preview will take more time, then when the option is off.

You can control how deep the site scanning can go by limiting the “Max. Number 
of Files” parameter (“Project Settings / Download” window), or by setting 
“Levels Limits” (“Project Settings / Advanced / Download” window).


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9. Third-party copyrighted material
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Most of web site are protected by copyright laws. Some of them are even prohibit 
offline browsing.

A user's access to and use of third-party copyrighted material is generally 
governed by the third party.
In all circumstances, the user is responsible for respecting the rights to and 
maintaining the integrity of third-party copyrighted material.

