-=> Steven Horn said to Greg Mayman
 -=> about "FTP07" on 04-16-03  22:59.....

 SH> Arachne itself may have instructions on how to integrate an external
 SH> program. 

It sure does, after a fashion. The Help file gives this:

|  *.OOKs are simply DOS batch files. I added this feature to Arachne,
|  because I wanted to allow easy and secure launching of DOS applications.
|  I was afraid to simply allow launching of *.BAT,*.COM and *.EXE files from
|  Arachne: in web browser, you ussualy want to send or upload files, instead
|  of running any executable file. And what would be worse: picture someone
|  launching ARACHNE.BAT or AUTOEXEC.BAT while running Arachne...
|  So I decided to use special extension for normal *.BAT files. It's easy,
|  it allows easy installation from Arachne Packages (*.APM), and icon can
|  be easily changed by modifying WWWMAN.CFG. Just write batch files to
|  launch you favourite DOS apps and place them into OOPS\ subdirectory.

Point 1: I have written a couple of batch files with the OOK
extension, and set up to call them with one of the user
programmable shift-Fx key functions. I can call them from within
Arachne, and they run and pass me back to Arachne when they exit.
Fine. But FTP07 and FTP-WIZ which I have tried this way work no
better than when I do an alt-E or alt-X out of Arachne and run
them from DOS.

Point 2: The above passage is the ONLY reference I have found
to Arachne Packages (*.APM). I have no idea what they are apart
from a suspicion that they may correspond to *.EXE or *.COM
files, but with the extension changed for the reasons outlined in
the extract above.

And why would I need one to install an OOK? I can do it as easily
as copying a file into the OOPS subdirectory and then either
editing Arachne's CFG file or opening Options and rewriting one
of the shift-Fx key functions.

From Greg Mayman, in beautiful Adelaide, South Australia
   "Queen City of The South"    34:55 S  138:36 E

... Funny, I don't remember being absent-minded...
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