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SOFTWARE: WebMirror 1.10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marco Maccaferri)
Sat Nov 29 19:07:29 1997
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 29 Nov 1997 18:13:00 -0400
From: macca@arci01.bo.cnr.it (Marco Maccaferri)
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WEBMIRROR 1.10
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Marco Maccaferri Software Development is pleased to announce the
availability of WebMirror 1.10 for OS/2 and 32 bit Windows platforms.
NEW FEATURES
WebMirror 1.10 includes wizards, a new interactive interface, and
scheduling.
This version lets you use WebMirror as a proxy service to your browser,
which makes viewing local and online Web pages transparent. Once your
browser is configured to use WebMirror as a proxy, WebMirror will handle
the loading of your Web pages, automatically determining whether to load
the requested information from the pages saved on your hard drive or to
retrieve new pages from the Web. You can even make sure your database
remains up to date by scheduling WebMirror to perform automatic,
unattended updates using your Windows 95 Dial-Up Connection or OS/2 Dial
Other Internet Provider.
WebMirror 1.10 keeps all of your captured Web pages in a single database.
Although the database is a proprietary format, you can export a site's
HTML and related files for use in other programs.
WHAT IS WEBMIRROR ?
WebMirror is an advanced off-line browsing tool that allows you to
re-create sections of the World Wide Web directly on your hard drive or
local network. You can save particular pages, complete with text, links
and graphics. Once the Web pages are saved to your hard drive (that is,
once you have "captured" them), you can refer back to the information at
any time, without an online connection and additional connection charges.
WHO CAN USE WEBMIRROR ?
WebMirror can be used by network administrators to provide access to
frequently-used web site to their corporate intranets or to provide
secure web browsing to selected web sites without the needs of expensive
firewalls, routers and internet connections.
WebMirror can also be used by CDROM makers to dump entire web sites on
CDROM without worrying about editing web pages to reflect the local
storage organization and limitations, the pages are retrieved directly
from the original web site and stored in a standard 8+3 database file.
WebMirror is also useful to privates who don't want to spend money
reading the page's contents on-line, they can retrieve an entire site or
even a portion of it then disconnect and enjoy reading without worrying
about the phone bill going to the stars.
WHAT IS NEEDED TO RUN WEBMIRROR ?
WebMirror runs under OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 with the Internet Access Kit
installed and running, Windows 95 and Windows NT Workstation or Server.
It's small memory footprint makes it very low on resource requests, so
the system you are currently using to run these operating systems is well
suitable to run WebMirror too.
In addition, if your computers are connected to a LAN you can browse the
stored web pages from other workstations running OS/2, Windows, MacOS and
all flavors of Unix, provided you are running a TCP/IP stack and a web
browser on these workstations too.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT ?
WebMirror can be downloaded from the author's web site located at
http://www.maccasoft.com or can be retrieved from BMT Micro's online
catalog at http://www.bmtmicro.com
HOW MUCH DOES IT COST ?
WebMirror is a shareware product, the free evaluation copy allows you to
retrieve and store the first level of a web site (that is the home page)
and allow only one user to be connected to the HTTP proxy server at any
time.
The registration fee for the full working version start at $25 for a
single operating system (OS/2 or Windows) for the 1 user personal
edition. Please visit the web site http://www.maccasoft.com or write to
sales@maccasoft.com for more information about the current registration
options.
WebMirror can be registered online with a credit card through BMT Micro
(http://www.bmtmicro.com) or one of the authorized dealers (see the web
site http://www.maccasoft.com for more information).
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