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Frequently Asked Questions about WebHunter

1. Tell me more about WebHunter.
2. What are system requirements for using WebHunter?
3. What is proxy configuration?
4. What protocols does WebHunter support?
5. Can I download pictures from Newsgroups?
6. Can I download any file types with WebHunter?
7. Does WebHunter support downloading files from sites that require password to login?
8. What are procedures to download files using WebHunter?
9. What is URL?
10. I have a URL that embeds user name and password information, for example http://username:password@www.mysite.com. How do WebHunter handle the URL?
11. How do I add my URL for WebHunter to search?
12. How do I delete URLs that I don't want?
13. What can I do with Organize Bookmarks panel?
14. Can I select multiple URLs in one batch download?
15. What are Page, Site, Sites and AllLinks search in the Download Options panel?
16. What are two small ... buttons on the Download Options panel?
17. What is the Display Image option under Image tab of Preferences panel?
18. what is Inline Image option under Image tab of Preferences panel?
19. Can I download different file types in one batch download?
20. I want to download image files. But I want to download only JPEG image file. How could I do that?
21. How can I download image file type that is not listed in the Image tab of Preferences panel, for example, BMP image file?
22. I don't want to download small image files. Can I specify to downlad only files whose size are great than certain size?
23. I want to download Federal Tax forms from http://www.1040.com/. How can I do that?
24. Can I select where to store the downloaded files?
25. I usually moved the downloaded image files to different directories after downloading. Is there any way to tell WebHunter to check these directories for a new download to avoid downloading the same file again?
26. I like to store downloaded files according to the site from which the files are downloaded. Can I have multiple download directories?
27. How do I stop the download process?
28. How many files can I download?
29. How can I view image files?
30. What can image viewer do?
31. How can I delete the downloaded pictures?
32. Where Can I get the information about the displayed image?
33. How can I slide show image files? How can I control slide show delay?
34. I click Full Screen menu item to view the picture full screen. There is not menu on the Full Screen. How can I go back to normal window mode?
35. Can I print the displayed image?
36. How can I play the sound files?
37. How do I register this program?
38. Where can I find more information about WebHunter?

WebHunter is a software program that performs search and batch download files from the Web automatically. You can specify any file types you want to download with WebHunter: image files, sound files, movie files, zip files, exe files -- you name it! WebHunter's powerful search engine searches the files you want and batch download found files into you local hard drive. You can also use WebHunter to download files from Newsgroups and FTP sites.

WebHunter has built in image (GIF and JPEG) viewer that allows you to download the image files from the Web or newsgroups, and displays the images as they are downloaded. During and after downloading, you could view, slide show, delete or reorganize the image files with WebHunter.

You can play music with WebHunter's Sound Player after downloading sound files. WebHunter's Sound Player supports popular sound formats: AU, WAV, AIFF, RMF, and MIDI.

In short, WebHunter searches and batch downloads any files you want from Web, FTP and Newsgroups; You can view image files and play sound with WebHunter.

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2. What are system requirements for using WebHunter?

• Windows 95/98 or Windows NT 4.0 (Intel) operating system
• A 486/DX or faster processor
• 20 megabytes of free disk space
• At least 32MB RAM; 48MB or more RAM is recommended
• VGA monitor or better that supports 256 or more colors
• Internet connection.

You should establish Internet connection before you use WebHunter for search and downloading files. If you connect to Internet through proxy server, you need proxy configuration.

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Proxy servers are programs that handle communication between a protected network and the Internet. You could find out proxy information from your Web browser, or ask your system administrator. If you have a direct connection to the Internet, for example using dial-up at home, you do not need to configure proxy.

To find out proxy configuration of your browser

For Netscape 4.0 or above

1. From the Edit menu, choose Preferences.
2. Click the Advanced category and choose Proxies.
3. Click View button of Manual Proxy Configuration.

For Microsoft Explorer 4.0 or above

1. From the View menu, choose Internet Options.
2. Click Connection tab.
3. In the proxy server area, click Advanced button.

You enter the proxy server information, including server address, and port address from proxy configuration panel.

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WebHunter supports HTTP, FTP and News NNTP protocols. You can search and download files not only from Web sites but also from FTP, and News server. For examples:

• http://www.yahoo.com (HTTP protocol)
• ftp://ftp.fedworld.gov/ (FTP protocol)
• news:comp.lang.java (NNTP protocol)

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Yes, you can. WebHunter supports downloading any file types from Newsgroups. To subscribe Newsgroups,

1. Click Network from Options menu.
2. Click News tab.
3. Specify News server that you wan to download files from.
4. Click Newsgroups button. If WebHunter successfully establish connection to the news server, all newsgroups are retrieved and listed.
5. Select the listed Newsgroups, and click Subscribe button.

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Yes. There is no limit what file type you want to download with WebHunter. For easy to use, file types are organized as Images, Sound, Movie, and Others categories.

• Images: GIF, JPEG, TIFF, and PNG files.
• Sounds: AU, WAV, RMF, MIDI, AIFF, and MP3 files.
• Movie: MOV, AVI, and MPEG.
• Others: Any other file types that are not listed in the Images, Sound, and Movie categories can be specified in this category.

For example, you want to download exe and zip files. Click Preferences from Options menu, then you enter exe and zip file extension to the file types list in the Others tab.

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Yes, WebHunter 1.4 allows you to download files from web pages that are password-protected. WebHunter will pop up a window to ask user to enter user name and password when password-protected page is accessed.

Generally speaking, there are two ways to ask user to enter password information when you use web browser, such as Netscape or Microsoft Internet Explorer.

The first way is that a window pops up to ask user to enter the password information. The second way is to enter the password information from a web page. There is no popup window for the second way. There is some technically differences how web server process the authentication between these two. We are not going to discuss the differences. Here we are going to talk about how WebHunter handle the authentication request.

For the first case, WebHunter always pops up a window to ask user to enter password information. For the second case, you can tell whether WebHunter process the authentication request from the web page. In some scenario, you don't have a password for a site and you don't want to have password request to interrupt the search process. You can turn the password request off for the second case by deselecting the Check HTML for password request from Filter panel.

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8. What are procedures to download files using WebHunter?

1. First, select or add the Internet URL address from the Bookmarks menu. You can add new URL address from Add Bookmark of Bookmarks menu. If URL address was already added, you can select the URL address from Organize Bookmarks, or you can toggle the URL address if the URL address is displayed under Bookmarks menu.
2. Click Download from tool bar that brings up Download Options panel. From Download Options panel, select file types you want to download. For example, you want to download image files, click the Image check box.
3. Click OK from Download Options panel. WebHunter begins to search and batch download files that you want.

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URL stands for uniform resource locator. URL includes information about protocol, domain name, and name and location of the resource you want to access. For example the following are valid URLs:

• http://www.yahoo.com (HTTP protocol)
• ftp://ftp.fedworld.gov/ (FTP protocol)
• news:comp.lang.java (NNTP protocol)

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WebHunter doesn't accept URL that embeds user name and password information. However you can access the site by adding URL http://www.mysite.com. WebHunter will popup a window to ask for user name and password information when accessing http://www.mysite.com. You enter the username and password in the popup window.

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To add URL

1. From Bookmarks menu, click Add Bookmarks.
2. Type in the URL and click OK. Or copy URL from your web browser and Click Paste.

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12. How do I delete URLs that I don't want?

To delete listed URLs,

1. From Bookmarks menu, click Organize Bookmarks.
2. Select the URL you want to delete, then click Delete.

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In Organize Bookmarks panel, you can do a lot things with URLs. You can select or deselect URLs, delete unwanted URLs, move URLs up and down. If you have a long list URLs, you can move you frequently used URLs to the beginning of the URL list so that you don't have to scroll up and down to find out the URLs.

The DeselAll button allows you to deselect all currently selected URLs. This give you handy so that you don't need to scroll up and down to find out the selected URLs and deselect them one by one.

The Copy button allows you to copy the selected URL so that you can paste the URL in Netscape or Microsoft Explorer browser.

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Yes, you can select multiple URLs in one batch download. There is no limit how many URLs you can select. WebHunter will perform search for all the selected URLs.

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These are search modes which determines how WebHunter's search engine to perform file search.

• Page download: searches and downloads wanted files from the specified Web page.
• Site download: in addition to search and download wanted files from the specified Web page, WebHunter also searches and downloads wanted files from hyperlinks to other Web pages inside the host site.
• Sites download: Sites download not only searches the host site, but also searches all the sites listed on the specified Web page. Sites download is useful for search of Search Engine query. For example, you could input the URL link from Yahoo search results into WebHunter. WebHunter will go through all the listed sites from the URL link, and perform file search and download. The follow well known search engines are supported: Yahoo, Excite, Lycos, Looksmart, Netscape, Altavista, and Infoseek.
• AllLinks download: performs search and download for all the hyperlinks, not limited to host site like Site download mode, or listed sites like Sites download.

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The ... button under search selection allows you to see what URLs you already select. Click on the ... button, a popup menu displays all currently selected URLs. If you want to deselect the URLs or you wan to select other URLs, you can click Organize Bookmarks from the popup menu.

The ... button under file selection allows you to bring up Preferences panel to select the detail file types you want to download.

These two buttons add convenience to select URLs and file types from Download Options panel instead of from main menu.

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If you download image files, Display Image option gives you a choice whether images are displayed when they are downloaded. If you select the option, images are displayed as they are downloaded. Anytime, if you want to see current downloaded images, click Current downloaded from Image menu.

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Inline Image option allows you to search and download inline images. Inline images usually are small images embedded in the Web page, including logo, ad pictures, etc. However, some large pictures can be displayed as Inline Image. If you don't want to miss all image files, you should select this option. You always have choice to delete all the unwanted image files after downloading.

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Yes, you can select Image, Sound, Movie or Other type files in one batch download. You just need to select the file types you want to download from Download Options panel.

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20. I want to download image files. But I want to download only JPEG image file, no GIF file. How can I do that?

1. From Download Options panel, select Image check box.
2. From Image tab of Preferences panel, select JPEG file type and deselect GIF, TIFF and PNG file type;

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21. How can I download image file type that is not listed in the Image tab of Preferences panel, for example, BMP image file?

You can always add any unlisted file types for search in Others tab of Preferences panel. If you want to download BMP image file, add BMP file extension in Others tab. From Download Options panel, select Others check box.

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Yes, you can specify the minimum download file size in Filter panel.

To specify the minimum download file size,

1. From Options menu, click Preferences.
2. Select Filter tab.
3. Enter the minimum file size you want to download in the file size field, select the check box.

From this panel, you can also specify file name filters. File name filters allow WebHunter to download only files whose file name contains the string specified in the file name filter field. The filter string is case insensitive. For example, you want to download files pic01.jpg, pic02.jpg ... pic100.jpg. You can enter filter string pic in the file name filter field. You don't need to put * in the filter string, such as pic*.jpg.

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The tax forms in http://www.1040.com/ are PDF file formats. First go to the Preferences panel, then select Others tab. In Others tab, you enter PDF to file type list. Your enter is case insensitive. In Download Options panel, select the Others check box, then you are ready to download the PDF files. If you select Page search mode for URL http://www.1040.com/98frms.htm, WebHunter will batch download all listed 1998 federal tax forms for you.

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Yes, you can. To specify the download directory

1. From Options menu, click Preferences.
2. Select the Directory tab.
3. You can either directly enter the directory path or click Browse button. When you use Browse, the chosen directory has to be highlighted in the file-listed window when click on the Choose button.
4. Click OK.

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Yes, you can specify the file filter directories in Filter panel.

1. From Options menu, click Preferences.
2. Select Filter tab.
3. Enter filter directories, select the check box.

When filter directory check box is selected, WebHunter will check whether file to be downloaded exist in these filter directories. You can enter multiple filter directories separated by semicolon. You don't need to specify the current download directory in filter directory field. WebHunter always checks the current download directory.

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No, you can only have one download directory for each download. However, you could achieve the same result by moving the downloaded files to the directories after downloading. WebHunter allows you to move downloaded files according to the sites from which files are downloaded.

To move files by the site:

1. From File menu, click Move. Or point your mouse to the downloaded file list area and click right button of your mouse to popup a menu, select Move from the popup menu.
2. Select Move sites contain check box, and enter site name.
3. Specify the directory to which you wan to move the files.

You don't have to specify the full site path. You can enter only the character string that can distinguish from other sites. WebHunter will move the sites whose name contains the specified string.

 From this Move panel, you have various options to move the downloaded files. You can use Shift or Ctrl key to select multiple files from the downloaded file list or use mouse to select a file. Then you select Move selected file option to move the selected files. You can also move files by file name similar like what we mentioned above for moving files by site by selecting Move files contain check box.

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You can stop downloading by click on the Stop button from tool bar. A message panel shows up to ask you whether you want to stop immediately or wait for finishing download of the current downloading file. If you choose to stop immediately, the unfinished downloading file will be deleted.

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There is no limit how many files you can download with fully registered version.

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Image Viewer window shows up by click View from Image menu. Under File menu of Image Viewer window, you can browse and open any GIF and JPEG file to view.

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WebHunter Image Viewer supports GIF and JPEG file formats. You can navigate image files conveniently by click on Next, Previous, First, Last. You can slide show, zoom in, zoom out, Full Screen, print, and display image information. You can also delete, move, save and organize image files. Image Viewer supports popup menu by click on the right mouse button. Image Viewer also allows you to select your preferred background color and slide show delay.

You can also select the image browse sequence in Forward, Backward, or Random mode.

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From File menu of WebHunter Image Viewer window, Delete allows you to delete the displayed image. Or you can delete all the downloaded image files by click on the Delete All.

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Click Information from View menu in Image Viewer window. You can find out the image file information such as image name, height, width, and size.

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You can toggle the Slide Show from View menu in Image Viewer window to turn on or off slide show for image files. Or click on the right mouse button to bring up a popup menu to toggle the Slide Show.

To change slide show delay in Image Viewer window

1. From Options menu, click Browse.
2. Enter the slide show delay in seconds. The default delay is 5 seconds.

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Full Screen gives you more space to view pictures.

To go back to normal window mode,

1. Click the right mouse button.
2. Click Full Screen from popup menu.

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You can print the displayed image by click on the Print of View menu in Image Viewer window.

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Click Play on Sound menu. WebHunter's Sound Player window prompts up. Sound Player supports popular sound formats:

• AU
• WAV
• AIFF
• RMF
• MIDI (Type 0 and Type 1 files)

The sound engine can handle 8- and 16-bit audio data at virtually any sample rate.

Loop button in Sound Player allows you to play the sound continuously. You can browse and organize sound files with Sound Player.

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You can register WebHunter on line. Click Online Register from Help menu. Your web browser will bring you to WebHunter home page http://www.geocity.com/SiliconValley/Garage/3583. Double clicks Register on the Web page.

User ID and Key code will be provided when you purchase the fully licensed version of WebHunter. You enter the User and Key information from register panel. Register panel is displayed by click Register from Help menu.

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You can find out the latest information about WebHunter from WebHunter home page.

http://www.geocity.com/SiliconValley/Garage/3583

If you have any questions and suggestions, send eamil to webh@hotmail.com.

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