Mosaic User's Guide

# Options Menu

The Options menu contains the following items:

Fancy Selections
  When this toggle button is activated, selections made via the X cut'n'paste mechanism will preserve the document's pretty formatting (headers, bulleted lists, etc.) as much as possible in the selected text.
Load to Local Disk (formerly Binary Transfer Mode)
  When this toggle button is activated, clicking on hyperlinks will pop-up a Save Filedialog box. A filename may be specified under which Mosaic will save the current document in the selected format (the valid choices are plaintext, pretty-formatted text, raw HTML, and PostScript).
Delay Image Loading
  Delayed image loading is for users with slow network connections. When this toggle button is activated, Mosaic substitutes a small icon for inlined-images, plus an arrow icon for inlined-images which also act as hyperlinks. Clicking on an icon tells Mosaic to load that inlined-image, while clicking on the arrow is equivalent to following the associated hyperlink. Selecting Load Images in Current from the `Options` menu loads and displays all of the inlined-images in the current document. Delayed image loading can also be selected with the '-dil' command-line flag, or with the delayImageLoads resource.
Load Images in Current
  Loads all inlined images into the current document when delayed image loading is on.
Reload Config Files
  Reload mailcaps and extension maps.
Flush Image Cache
  Flushes the image data cache from memory.
Clear Global History
  Erases the personal history record Mosaic stores in order to mark previously visited links accordingly. The default file in which the history record is saved is ".mosaic-global-history" in the user's home directory. Once the global history record is cleared, all hyperlinks will be marked unvisited.
Fonts (12 choices)
  You can change NCSA Mosaic's font choices on the fly via these menu options. The fonts in the Options menu are all fairly common and should be on any reasonable X server (X11R4 or above). If you create a new Document View window (e.g., through cloning or through the Window Per Document feature), its set of fonts will be inherited from the previous window.
Anchor Underlines (5 choices)
  You can change NCSA Mosaic's anchor (or hyperlink) underline states on the fly via these menu options.

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