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: Help: Options: General Preferences:
NOTE: This help page provides information concerning all of the optional
settings that are generally available to users of . It
is possible, however, that your system administrator disabled user
control over some (or even all) of these settings. In such a case, the
relevant options would not appear in your options setting form.
- Background Color
- The background color used for pages.
- Additional <BODY> Parameters
- Additional parameters (other than the background color) for the BODY tag of pages.
- Framing Table Color
- The background color used for the outer (framing) tables of forms.
- Additional Framing Table Parameters
- Additional parameters (other than the background color) for the outer (framing) tables
of forms.
- Primary Table Parameters
- Parameters for the inner (primary) tables of forms.
- FileName Field Size
- Size of input fields containing filenames in forms.
- File Manager Window Size
- Sizes of the File Manager select field. The vertical size is the number
of visible items. The horizontal size is roughly the size in characters,
although the actual resulting physical width depends very much on the browser
(and can differ considerably for different browsers).
- File Properties Listing
- File properties that would be displayed in the File Manager along with the names
of files and directories. 'None' would only display the name.
'Partial' would display name, size and the last modification time. 'Full' would display
name, size, last modification time, owner, group, and mode.
- "GET as TEXT" Sending Mode
- If the 'Send Files in Binary Mode' box is checked, then files sent with the 'GET as TEXT'
option will be sent in their exact binary format (which is the same way they are sent with
the 'GET' or 'GET as BIN' options). Otherwise, such files will be converted to a non-native
text format (namely, LF characters will be converted to CR-LF pairs or vice versa). That is,
if is running on UNIX, the files will be converted to WinDOS format, and if
is running on Win32, they will be converted to UNIX format.
- Extra Path Information
- If the 'Provide Filename for Downloaded Files' box is checked, file names will be added
to the the download URL as extra path information whenever files are downloaded through one
of the 'GET' options. This enables the browser to know the correct filename for downloaded files.
In most cases this box should be checked.
- Content-length Header
- If the 'Generate Header when Appropriate' box is checked, will supply a
'Content-length' header when a file is dowloaded through one of the 'GET' options. Otherwise,
such a header will not be provided. This box should be checked unless the web server is ignoring
this header and attaches its own Content-length header to 's output.
- Default Request Method
- The request method used by most of 's forms.
- Default MIME Type
- The default MIME type to be reported for downloaded files. This is only relevant for
files with extensions that do not appear in 's MIME table.
- MIME Table
- The MIME table determines the MIME type which reports
to the browser whenever files are being downloaded using the 'GET'
file-downloading method. The table matches file extensions to MIME types,
where the extensions appearing in the table must be capitalized. The
matching eventually does is case insensitive (such
that .PL, .pl, .Pl, and .pL are all the same for the purpose
of MIME type matching). Files with extensions that do not
appear in the table will be reported to have 's
default MIME type.