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[comp.os.linux.announce] XMosaic 1.1 uploaded to Sunsite.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Eichin)
Mon Jul 5 02:31:16 1993
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 93 11:29:32 PDT
From: eichin@cygnus.com (Mark Eichin)
To: eichin@paycheck.cygnus.com, linux-dev@mit.edu
We're not running libc-4.4 yet, but as soon as 4.4.1 is out we should,
and then we should get this. _Mark_
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
From: "Scott A. Laird" <lair@midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject: XMosaic 1.1 uploaded to Sunsite.
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 93 13:33:39 GMT
Reply-To: "Scott A. Laird" <lair@midway.uchicago.edu>
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Keywords: XMosaic, WWW, browser
I have just uploaded NCSA Mosaic 1.1 to sunsite.unc.edu. It is linked
with libc 4.4.
Mosaic is an X-based WWW (world-wide web) browser. It is Motif-based,
but this binary is linked with static Motif libraries, so you do not
need to own Motif to run it.
If your Linux box is not on the Internet, this program is less useful,
but can still view local files. This release has not been tested
extensively. Mosaic needs at least 8 Mb of RAM. I am working on
getting it to work with term. Send mail (and faster modems) if
interested.
Here is an excerpt from its documentation:
Current capabilities
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o Support for accessing documents and data through Gopher, WAIS,
World Wide Web, FTP, NNTP/Usenet news, Techinfo, TeXinfo, Telnet,
tn3270, Archie, CSO qi/ph, NCSA DMF, local files, and other
sources.
o Friendly X/Motif user interface.
o Color and monochrome default X resource settings.
o Multiple independent toplevel windows.
o History list per window (both 'where you've been' and 'where you
can go').
o Global history with previously visited locations visually distinct;
global history is persistent across sessions.
o Hotlist/bookmark capability -- keep list of interesting documents,
add/remove/edit items, list is persistent across sessions.
o Personal annotations with GUI annotation entry dialog; annotations
can later be edited or deleted, and hyperlinks to existing annotations
are inlined into subsequent accesses of an annotated document. (Note:
any document from any server via any access method can be
annotated.)
o Group annotations with NCSA group annotation server (not yet
released).
o Audio (voice) annotations with GUI for controlling recording process
(SGI, SGI, and HP only).
o Support for recognizing and handling GIF, JPEG, TIFF, audio, AIFF,
DVI, MPEG, MIME, XWD, RGB, HDF, PostScript documents and forking
off appropriate viewers.
o Transparent and automatic uncompression of compressed (.Z) and
gzip'd (.z or .gz) files.
o Inlined images in formatted (HTML) text: X bitmaps and GIF images
can be included anywhere inside a document, and can act as hyperlink
anchors. Image files themselves can be located anywhere on the
network. Images can act as maps, so clicking on them sends
coordinates of click to remote server.
o Binary transfer mode, for pulling down arbitrary binary files and
saving them to local disk without viewing them.
o In-document search capability.
o Fully 8-bit clean for formatted and plain text.
o Options for new window per document (aka TurboGopher interface)
-- always, or via middle mouse button.
o On-the-fly font and hyperlink style selection.
o Many common document and data source choices accessible via
menubar.
o Keyword search capability (for WAIS, Gopher, Archie, etc.).
o Cut and paste formatted text into other X windows.
o Smart handling of documents too big for single X window -- virtual
document pages via inlined hypertext.
o Save/mail/print documents in several formats, including formatted
ASCII text and PostScript.
o Online hypertext help and FAQ list.
o No config or resource file installation required; self-contained
executable.
o Extremely customizable.
o Can be controlled by signals to allow use as a full-featured help
or information presentation subsystems by existing applications.
o Integrated with NCSA Collage and NCSA DTM to broadcast
documents into real-time networked workgroup collaboration
sessions.
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The full source is available from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu, in /Mosaic. It
compiled with only minor Makefile modifications.
Send questions and bug reports to lair@midway.uchicago.edu.
Scott Laird.
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