Arachnophilia - an HTML Editor for Windows 95

About Arachnophilia:

Arachnophilia is an HTML editor for Windows 95. It is provided without cost as "careware" (see http://www.arachnoid.com/lutusp/arach.html).

Arachnophilia has several useful features:

You can import RTF (rich text format) documents into Arachnophilia, and they will be converted into HTML. This provides a convenient way of converting word processor documents (saved in RTF format) into Web pages. Tables in the original document will be converted to HTML tables in the resultant Web pages. However, figures and images in the original document are omitted from the final HTML document, and have to be inserted afterwards as references to .GIF or .JPG files.
It is possible to edit both HTML documents and CGI scripts. Multiple files can be open at the same time.
Arachnophilia provides a "Site Analyser" tool, which aims to "examine your site in depth, finding links that go nowhere and resources that are not used". The Site Analyser scans all HTML documents in the current working directory, and produces a list of all the hyper-links that exist in these documents. The list is organised to show: a) all referenced on-site files, and the source documents which point to them; b) all un-referenced on-site resources; c) all links which point to non-existent files or off-site resources.
There is an optional "Autocopy" feature, which copies all locally referenced files into one "working directory", and converts their hyperlinks to the relative path form. This means that files do not "go missing" from your document structure, and the whole directory can be moved en masse without disrupting any links.
Arachnophilia color-codes the HTML document's tags, so they are easy to identify.
There is a multiple-level "Undo" function.
The program comes with an excellent set of help-files.

Arachnophilia does not contain a built-in preview function, and so must be used in conjunction with a browser, to view the appearance of the final Web pages.

See a picture of Arachnophilia in use.

Installing Arachnophilia:

Download and save the self-extracting executable file aracstor.exe (1.29 Mb) to a suitable directory on your PC's hard disk.
From the DOS prompt, change into this directory and type aracstor to run the self-extracting program. Nine files will be unpacked onto your hard disk, one of which is called setup.exe . You can now delete aracstor.exe.
In the Windows 95 Explorer, open the setup.exe file. This will start up the installation program. You will be prompted for a directory to which to install Arachnophilia.
Once Ararchnophilia is installed, you can run it from the program bar, or create an icon for it. You may also wish to specify an external browser for use by Arachnophilia as a previewer.
If you wish to remove Arachnophilia, there is an uninstaller program, uninst.exe, amongst the original unpacked setup files.

For more information about Arachnophilia, see http://www.arachnoid.com/lutusp/arachnofaq.htm

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