Tom

Thank you very much for taking the time out to try my web page that I had a problem with. Easily, you could have just stated what was the typical problem and sent me an email stating how to fix it. However, you took the time out to actually try to find the error that I was having and you also followed up with a resolution.

Thank you very much for the impressive technical support. This type of help will bring me back in buying upgrades and future products.

Thanks Again,
Chris Ebert

Thank you for your clear and exhaustive response to my question. This shows and unusual interest in providing service to your users, even potential users.

I think I was one of the first to register Offline Commander. Offline Commander does everything claimed, and it does it well. OC’s method of having the user type a Boolean expressions using wildcard selection criteria is very effective, and easier to understand and control than the other mass web retrieval and selection products, which I’ve used. OC has become my primary internet browser. OC’s approach of parsing, queuing up and storing retrieved web pages and files into a database yields significant advantages. OC has a feature called the “drop box”, into which the user can drag and drop individual links or even selections of text, and OC will queue up and retrieve all of the links. It becomes much faster to browse the already retrieved web page from OC’s local hard disk database, than retrieve the page from the internet. I tie up our telephone ISP connection much less, because I can browse the retrieved links offline, and queue up additional links for future retrieval . One of the tricks of using OC as an enhanced browser is that I export my “Favorites” as an html page, and then load that into OC. From there it is easy to drag and drop my selected web links or even a block of them. OC is very fast as a browser, and when I want it, I have all the extra power to download, organize, save, and search through entire sets of archived web pages. The programmers of OC have clearly thought and studied as they implemented this product. I’ve written them several times, and they have been very responsive, and helpful. Offline Commander has become my favorite and the best, most useful program that I’ve used over the last several years. Offline Commander is that good!

Robert Warren

Forgot to mention my favorite and most useful feature is the Access database of downloaded files.

Yours truly,
Gary M. May

Thanks for that. I really am impressed with your comments and the prog itself. I particularly like the drop box feature and the fact that you can export to another storage media. I agonised to go with Offline Explorer Pro (MetaProducts). Their latest version has auto dial up and disconnect and your prog appears not to. That said they charge for major upgrades (currently $20) whereas you do not and it's that factor that has prompted me to buy your product.

Many thanks,
Jon Moran

I bought OC in (late?) November and congratulate you on a great product. It's a quantum leap better that anything else I've been able to find and you're welcome to quote me.

Thank you,
Andrew Griffiths

This is a massively capable product which is simply light-years ahead of any other offline browser available at present. I have struggled with Offline Explorer, BlackWidow, WebWhacker etc, but they all share the same failing in that, however much you mess around with filters, you inevitably end up downloading loads of junk you don't want while missing much of the stuff you do need. Offline Commander works far more intuitively, and has clearly been designed by programmers who have thought long and hard about exactly how (and why) people use offline browsers. As a bonus, it can also be used in online mode as a normal browser, prefetching links at the user's discretion and hugely speeding up browsing using a dialup connection. Another major plus is that saved projects are stored by default in a single MS Access-compatible database file, instead of cluttering the hard disk with hundreds of directories sometimes nested up to a dozen deep, simply to store a single locally-relinked GIF or some such. Whilst this option exists, as in conventional site grabbers, it will degrade performance and encourage fragmentation, particularly under Windows NT. Although there are one or two rough edges, and there seem to be a few stability issues, the general presentation is slick and professional. Why have only 316 people downloaded it so far? My only real gripe is that the evaluation version limits each project to 500 downloaded files - I like what I've seen so far, but this is far too restrictive for a proper testing of the product.

WOW! It was simply great. The features are excellent, really easy to use and the stabily is outstanding.