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                 Webcow - the handy tool
             (c) 2000-2005 by Hans Krentel
                       FREEWARE
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ATTENTION:
This Software (Webcow.exe) is in a Beta State. It's on 
your very OWN HIGH RISK to copy, execute or whatever 
this Program. The Author is not responsible for any 
damage that could caused by Webcow.

Email: mailto:hanskrentel@yahoo.de
Homepage: http://subfiles.net/webcow/

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Content
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1. Basics
 1.1 About Beta
 1.2 Installing

2. Webcow
 2.1 What is Webcow ?
 2.2 Why Webcow ?
 2.3 How does Webcow work ?
 2.4 Import and Export Lists

3. Advanced
 3.1 Tip No. 13


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1.1 About Beta
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Webcow is Beta. So you may get Errors. I need feedback 
on this to continue developing this Project. 
Because of this, I implented a Version Check since 
0.51.6021. If you find a Bug, you can check if a new 
version is avaible for download (Menu: Extra -> Check 
for a new version of Webcow... or press F11 ). If 
your bug still exists in the new version or no new 
version is available, please tell me.
At this point I would like to thank all the people who 
send feedback and bug reports to me which helps 
a lot to imporve this piece of software.

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1.2 Installing
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Installing of Webcow is as easy as running an installer. 
Just extract the archive in the folder you 
like Webcow to be installed and that it is.
To start the program just run Webcow.exe. It is a need 
that you have got the visual basic 6.0 runtimes 
installed. Win2k and WinXP users have them on their disk 
already. Every other person can download them 
from microsoft (www.microsoft.com) or take the download 
link(s) on the hompage.
If you downloaded your distribution through winsite, 
nonags or similar, be shure to get the latest 
version: http://subfiles.net/webcow/
Webcow will automatically create it's Webcow.ini and 
Webcow.hst (history) in the local directory.

To uninstall Webcow, just remove the exe,ini & hst file 
and the auto created tmp directory (if you want 
to delete the standard download folder) and Webcow is 
off your system. no reboot, no registry settings. 
If you wonder what's a .wls file is, it's a list you 
saved with Webcow.
If you used webcow's internet explorer context menu 
option, you maybe can't delete wcie.dll until you 
turned of the feature and the dll is unloaded. To unload 
the dll, close internet explorer.

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2.1 What is Webcow ?
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Webcow is a small and handy tool to get the links out of 
directory listings or webpages. It was first 
created to get all files of an Apache* directory 
listing. Within the development, I was asked for 
publishing and improvements, some errorfixing options 
and file-filters were added.
Today webcow is a swiss army knive for web-based 
downloads. Next to its own downloader it supports all 
major download apps. You can even use it to sort 
textfiles or process them in some way.

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2.2 Why Webcow ?
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It really saves your time :-). Instead of clicking each 
link on a page from top to the button or 
'rightclick save as' or whatever, Webcow just does it. I 
use it for all my personal needs.

The following features are supported by Webcow:
 - http, https, password protected sites & ftp
 - http redirects
 - selectable user-agent
 - referer (the get-textbox is used for this)
 - proxy settings (taken from windows internet settings 
 or your own settings)
 - cookies
 - export to download manager via reroute, clipboard or 
 file like NetVampire or DAP.
 - integration into internet explorer context-menu.
 - much more

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2.3 How does Webcow work ?
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You just enter an internetadress (url) and press get. 
It's quite like browsing. After this, the 
returned data will be parsed for links and all links 
will be listed. Now the FilterCowPad' provides 
some filtering options like prefix and suffix, and new 
since version 0.51.6030, the OneWildcard* 
filter. After pressing Apply, the filters will be 
applied on the list of links. If something went 
wrong, just press reset to get the originally list back. 
If options are entered, both filter will 
apply.
After this press start download, and each link, one 
after one, will be downloaded. If you use the BASE 
textbox, this text will be applied as base for every 
link in the list. (With this base you can even do 
some usefull stuff in combination with the list - 
sometimes the links parsed from the page are wrong. 
In this case you can easily use your own BASE to fix 
problems for all links.)
You can check out the tutorial on the website: 
http://subfiles.net/webcow/docs/
There are often placed tooltips for help in the Program 
directly.

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2.4 Import and Export Lists
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With right mouse button on the list, you'll get a long 
menu with different copy & paste options. 
'Entry' is one row of the list, 'list' means the 
complete list. If you copy the list, all links are 
exported to windows clipboard, seperated line by line 
(plain text).
This data can be useed to import into other 
downloadmanagers or into an editor (like Notepad or 
Metapad*) where extended list manipulating is possible. 
you can paste it back later.
With this method you are able to build long lists. Do 
not forget to use 'apply base' first to get the 
base in front of every link.
While pasting a list or any link into the list, every 
duplicate link will be automatically removed.

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3.1 Tip No. 13
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Here is a list of features good to know for the 
hardworking league of beta testers:

- Pressing crtl in main window will switch the 'Get' 
button into an 'Add' button. Enter or modify the 
URL and press the 'Add' button, all LINKS from the URL 
will be added to the list instead of making a 
new list.
- Entering a program file in the URL textbox and 
pressing F12 or menu 'extra > open current url in 
browser' will open the program
- Using multiple processes: if the bandwidth is running 
low (i.e. you use 3 webcows on a isdn), 
sometimes Webcow seems to hang - don't kick the app out. 
it takes some time until continuing. Webcow 
will refresh it's visual interface every 512 bytes 
downloaded.


*Apache: Apache Webserver www.apache.org
*Metapad: Metapad is a great choice for those who like 
their text editors small, fast, and free 
http://welcome.to/metapad