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- NCSA Mosaic for Microsoft Windows
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- Installation and Configuration Guide Version 3.0.0
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- Table of Contents:
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- Introduction
- System Requirements
- Hardware
- Software (operating systems)
- Supported Operating Systems
- Connecting to the Internet
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- Obtaining Mosaic from NCSA
- Ways to obtain the software
- Command line FTP instructions
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- Installing NCSA Mosaic
- Introduction
- The Mosaic initialization file (mosaic.ini)
- Windows 3.1 or Windows for Workgroups
- Windows NT for the Intel ix86 compatible processors:
- Windows NT for the DEC aXP, Mips , Power PC processors
- Executing and Testing NCSA Mosaic
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- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- Support and Feedback to NCSA
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- Introduction
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- NCSA Mosaic is an Internet navigation and data retrieval tool that allows you to access
- network information with the click of a mouse button. Mosaic is capable of accessing data
- from World Wide Web servers (HTTP), Gopher servers, FTP servers and Usenet News servers (NNTP).
- Mosaic can also access other data services through gateway servers. These services provide
- search capabilities in database environments such as PH, Archie, WAIS, and Veronica. NCSA
- Mosaic provides transparent access to these information sources and services. NCSA Mosaic
- software is copyright The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (UI), and
- ownership remains with the UI. The UI grants you a license without a fee to use the Mosaic
- software for personal, academic, research, government and internal business purposes. For
- information about licensing or distributing Mosaic see the FAQs at the end of this document.
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- Below are the naming schemes we are using for this release.
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- With a Setup Program:
- mosaic30.exe ...................Win95 & WinNT for the Intel processor
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- System Requirements
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- Hardware
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- Mosaic operates under Microsoft Windows on one of the following processor architectures.
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- Intel iX86 - Intel's 386, 486, Pentium, and Pentium Pro processors
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- The minimum requirement for the Intel processor is a 80386SX-based machine with 4MB RAM
- operating in enhanced mode. Consult your Windows manual for more information about running
- your system in enhanced memory mode.
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- Software
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- Operating System - Mosaic requires one of the following Windows operating systems:
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- Intel (iX86) Windows 95 or Microsoft Windows NT (version 3.5x or 4.0)
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- Windows NT and Windows 95 Users:
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- Windows NT and Windows 95 are 32-bit operating systems with built-in support for OLE.
- WinNT and Win95 users should NOT install Win32s with OLE on their computers.
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- Connecting to the Internet
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- Many organizations that are already on-line offer their members or employees Internet access.
- Some typical organizations include Colleges, Universities, Government Agencies, and Corporate
- organizations. Check with the organization's computer services organization for more
- information about gaining access to the Internet. Another way to gain Internet access is to
- purchase on-line services from a commercial company. There are companies that provide Internet
- access for a monthly fee. See the FAQs for a list of Nationwide and International Internet
- Service Providers.
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- Obtaining Mosaic from NCSA
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- NCSA Mosaic is available for free from our anonymous FTP (File Transfer Protocol) or for a
- small fee on diskette. Hardcopy manuals and software disks are available through the NCSA
- Technical Resource Catalog. The NCSA Technical Resource Catalog is available from the NCSA
- Orders desk. You can request a copy of the catalog by email, phone or US mail.
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- NCSA Orders
- 152 Computing Applications Bldg.
- 605 E. Springfield Ave.
- Champaign, IL 61820-5518
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- orders@ncsa.uiuc.edu
- (217) 244-4130
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- Obtaining the software via FTP is the fastest and most cost effective way of obtaining Mosaic.
- There are various FTP software interfaces. Some FTP clients have command line and some use a
- graphical user interface (GUI). Mosaic has a built-in FTP GUI client and if you are using an
- older copy of Mosaic you can download the latest version from the NCSA Mosaic for Microsoft
- Windows home page. (http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/WinMosaic/HomePage.html) On the
- home page you will find a link to the latest release. If you do not have Mosaic but have
- access to a command line FTP client, you can use the following instructions to FTP Mosaic
- to your system.
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- Command line FTP instructions
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- 1. Invoke your local FTP client and open a session to ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu. For example:
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- open ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu (The command line for the Microsoft command line FTP client)
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- ftp ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu (The command line from a UNIX based command line FTP client)
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- 2. At the login prompt enter the name anonymous.
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- anonymous
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- 3. At the password prompt enter your email address as the password. For example:
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- yourname@your.company.com
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- 4. Change directories to /Mosaic/Windows directory.
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- cd /Mosaic/Windows
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- 5. List the contents of the directory, using the command:
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- ls
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- 6. Tell the FTP server you want to transfer a binary file by giving the command:
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- bin
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- 7. Get the Mosaic software using the command:
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- get mosaic30.exe
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- 8. When you are finished downloading files from our FTP server, give the bye command and the
- server will log you out.
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- bye
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- Installing NCSA Mosaic
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- We have simplified the installation of Mosaic as much as we can. However, to establish
- the proper network environment you will need winsock software and a Internet access
- provider. NCSA does not promote any particular winsock software or network access
- provider. For more information about the available winsocks and Internet access providers
- see the FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) at the end of this file. With this in mind,
- we must assume you already have a winsock and an Internet access provider.
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- Ensure you have the appropriate Operating System and environment set up before you attempt
- to install Mosaic.
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- The setup program installs Mosaic into the "c:\mosaic" directory by default however you
- may specify any directory. The only directory Mosaic will not install is in the same
- directory as the setup.exe program. The result of this action will cause the Mosaic setup
- process to fail.
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- The Mosaic initialization file (mosaic.ini)
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- Mosaic no longer requires an initialization file. If you have an old one, please keep it
- around for the first few times you run Mosaic, as your ini file will be read and written
- into the registry as you access it...hence you will not lose your previous settings.
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- The registry is now used to store information for Mosaic. You can edit the registry
- by using the 'regedit' program included with the operating system. Look under the
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\NCSA\\Mosaic key to find the settings for Mosaic.
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- Windows 95, Windows NT
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- 1. Put mosaic30.exe into a temporary directory (e.g., C:\install).
- 2. Double click on the My Computer icon.
- 3. Find the folder containing mosaic30.exe.
- 4. Double click on mosiac30.exe.
- 5. Follow the instructions in the Setup program.
- 6. Open Start, select Programs; select Mosaic and read the release notes.
- 7. (Optional) Delete the files in the temporary C:\install directory.
- 8. (Optional) Download and setup the associated viewer applications. Go to the
- Mosaic home page and click on the Viewers link.
- 9. Have fun, Enjoy!
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