WebSurf commands

Menu commands

Look at the menu by pressing Menu. You can see that a lot of commands are available in the File, Loading, Document and Special menus. We are going to explain them.

• Open: As for other applications, you can use it to open another file;
• Reload: Close the file and load it again;
• Edit: Launch the text editor to edit the file, and when you close the text editor, starts re-processing the file.

• Stop: By selecting this option, you temporarily stop the program from reading the file. You can, however, still see the part that has already been loaded;
• Resume: This makes the program read the end of the file, when it has been stopped with the previous option, or when a memory error has occured, and you selected "Stop";
• Forget all and continue: Whether the program is still reading the file or not, this makes it discard most of the top of the file and continue the download.
• Empty cache: Deletes all files in the m:\www\cache\ directory. Use this to recover memory when you saw lots of GIF pictures on a page.

• URL: Shows the URL (Uniform Ressource Location) of the current document. This should always be something like file:... unless you're viewing a real-time Web document (if this happens, call me! ;-) ;
• Title: This option will show you the title of the document you're currently viewing;
• Links: Brings a dialog box allowing you to see all the links which are on the current page, and where they lead;
• History: Shows you the last 7 pages visited;
• Back: Brings you to the previous page.

• Preferences: This will show you the preferences dialog. With it, you can choose the font used to display the page (Swiss or Roman), whether it is always non-proportional, or set according to the HTML tags, the language (French, English, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, German, Irish, Dutch or Welsch), in case you don't like the one that has automatically been selected, and the thickness of the loading indicator, together with the percentage of memory that should be deleted when you run out of memory and decide to continue, and the way WebSurf displays alternate text for images;
• About: Gives the version number;
• Register: Choose this to register when you have the registration code ;
• Zoom in: you know it;
• Zoom out: you know it;
• Exit.

Keyboard commands

In addition to the previous commands, you can use the following ones:

• TAB: follows a link (links are shown as inverted text). When there are more than one link on the screen, you are asked which one you want to follow, otherwise you are automatically brought to the only existing one. There can be an unlimited number of links in a document. This is the most important command of WebSurf;
• Arrow keys: use up and down keys to move across the page;
• Psion-Arrow keys: use this to move a screen at a time (press Ctrl to move to the top/bottom of the page);
• SPACE: use this to move one screen downwards (just as Psion-Down would do).

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