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USEFUL COMMANDS
===============
     Scroll vertically with the arrows and Page Up and  Page
     Down keys.
     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 can't afford the price send me a postcard
     instead!
     Comments, queries, suggestions and bug reports are also
     always welcome.

             Nick Gray
              Cidex 355
               38330 St Ismier
                FRANCE

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

     If  you  cannot  afford the price, send me  a  postcard
     instead.
     Comments, queries, suggestions and bug reports are also
     always welcome.


SUPPORTED FEATURES
==================
     KNOTS supports the following html FEATURES

     o  HTML Headings and page titles
     o  BOLD,  /italics/ and preformatted text
     o  Paragraphs and line breaks
     o  Horizontal rules
     o  Special Characters:  &lt; &gt; &#65; &copy; &quot;
     o  Ordered and Unordered lists
     o  Hypertext Refs to local files <a href="index.htm">
     o  Inline Image ALT tags

NEW! o  International Character codes:  &eacute; &Ntilde;
NEW! o  ADDRESS, STRONG, EM, and CODE tags
NEW! o  Improved rendering of fonts

NEW! o  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.


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


KNOWN LIMITATIONS
=================
     o  Html pages cannot exceed 1800 lines.
     o  No more than 400 URL links per page.
     o  URLs cannot be longer than 100 characters.
     o  A history of only 100 links is stored.
     o  Ordered lists cannot exceed 127 items.
     o  The browser cannot deal with more than 200 files in a directory.


DISTRIBUTING KNOTS
==================
     o  KNOTS is shareware so there are no restrictions to the
     number of personal copies you can make of it.

     o  You may freely distribute or upload KNOTS to Bulletin
     Boards and FTP 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. 

     o  If you would like to make money distributing KNOTS, 
     for example by selling a shareware disk that includes this
     program,  please contact the author,  Nick Gray for his
     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:
     
     o  Handling of html tables.
     o  Handling of html justification mark-ups - <center>, <right>
     o  Handling of html anchors within a file <a href="FileName#Label">
     o  A search function.
     o  A DOS shell and the possibility to invoke an external
     editor from within KNOTS to make html development faster.
     o  The possibilty to invoke external viewers for certain file types.
    

     The latest version of KNOTS can always be found on the Web, at:

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