Voyager's Cache configuration is not fully functional yet but two of the
On-Disk Cache options may be used.
Voyager's Security functions are currently not accessible for you to
configure.
Voyager currently supports mailto: links to send email to
people on the net, and can access an NNTP news server to allow you to
browse Usenet newsgroups. Here is where you can configure your identity to
show the rest of the world.
The MIME GUI allows you to set "external viewers" to launch, run, play, view externally,
view internally or save to disk, files on the Internet.
You need to tell Voyager what to do when it comes across certain files. For example,
if someone had "click here to view this TIF file" how would Voyager show it normally?
To view the file you would set a MIME type to recognise the TIF extension when it
is encountered.
When you download a file, Voyager needs to know what to do - does it save to file, view
it, play it etc. All files have MIME-types. For example a JPG file may have
the MIME type of "image" and the sub-type of "JPG", which would normally look like
"image/jpg".
Many of the preferences are already allocated for you (which you can change). An LHA
file, for example, is already set to "save to file" as standard.
The beauty of Voyager is that you can set the MIME types to recognise extensions such
as a WAV sound file (normally found on a PC) or to play a AVI file (which is an animation
file found on a PC or a MAC) when these are found within a web site.
To get Voyager to play a .wav file is relatively easy. First we need to get hold of
the .wav datatype. Goto the section on the CD and extract the WAV datatype (ftWAV_dt40.2.lha).
Install to the correct drawers on your Workbench.
WAV sound files have two different MIME types "audio/x-wav" and "audio/wav" so we need to make
two entries within the MIME GUI to be completely secure.
You should go through the same process again but change the MIME sub-type to "wav" instead
of "x-wav". Press OK in the settings box and your prefs will be saved.
Voyager understands and processes HTML and TXT (ASCII text) files internally and displays
them within the main window. Voyager's internal image decoders also understand GIF and JPG
and will also display these within the main window.
You can get Voyager to recognise other images but these would have to displayed outside
the main window. Set your MIME-types to get Viewtek to show a TIF file, for example. Remember
that you will need the relevant datatypes to do this!
3.57 Cache
3.58 Security
3.59 Mail and News
3. 510 MIME Settings
Setting the MIME Types - a .wav Example
Voyager's MIME Pre-settings
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