Grail Hints and Tips

Here are some hints and tips that may make life with Grail easier.

• Before reporting a bug, check the bug list and the list of patches.
• To stop a transfer, click on the spinning Grail logo to the left of the menu bar.
• If you get an unexpected save dialog on following a link, it's an unsupported file type. Cancel the dialog if you don't want to save it.
• To enable proxy support if you live inside a firewall, set the following environment variables (note: the names are lower case):

  Protocol  Name        Value
          
  http      http_proxy  http://proxyserver:proxyport
  ftp       ftp_proxy   http://proxyserver:proxyport
  

  (I believe these are the only protocols for which it makes sense at the moment.)
• In addition, if you have proxy support enabled, you can also set the environment variables no_proxy to a comma-separated list of host names for which the proxy server should not be used. (Generally, you'd set this to avoid going through the proxy for servers that are inside your firewall.)
• Proxies can also be configured via the Proxies preference panel; the above mentioned environment variables are used as the defaults.
• The html2ps.py module can be used as a standalone script to convert from HTML to PostScript. From the command line; do ``html2ps.py -h'' for details. This can even be used to add ``real'' HTML printing from a browser like Arena!