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- <H2 ALIGN=CENTER>Welcome to
- <A HREF="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/">NCSA </A>
- <A HREF="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/NCSAMosaicHome.html">
- Mosaic</A>
- <A HREF="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/trademark.html">
- ™</A>
- for <A HREF="http://www.microsoft.com">Microsoft Windows ™</A>
- </H2>
-
- NCSA Mosaic is an Internet navigation and data retrieval tool. It 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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- <P>
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- Mosaic is a Win32 application and is compatible
- with Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Windows NT and Windows 95.
- The Windows NT operating system is available for the following processors:
-
- <DL>
- <DD><B>iX86</B> - Intel's iX86 Processors and compatibles
- <DD><B>aXP</B> - Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) aXP processor
- <DD><B>MIPS</B> - Mips Technology processors
- <DD><B>PPC</B> - The Motorola PowerPC
- </DL>
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- <H3 ALIGN=CENTER>NCSA Mosaic Final Beta Release Notes </H3>
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- <H3 ALIGN=CENTER>Table of contents</H3>
- <P ALIGN=CENTER>
- <TABLE>
- <TR><TD><A HREF="#mosaic.ini">mosaic.ini Update Information</A></TD></TR>
- <TR><TD><A HREF="#Win32s">Win32s Update Information</A></TD></TR>
- <TR><TD><A HREF="#Feature">Features, Enhancements and Bug Fixes</A></TD></TR>
- </TABLE>
- </P>
- <HR>
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- <H3 ALIGN=CENTER><A NAME="mosaic.ini">mosaic.ini Update Information</A></H3>
-
- The Mosaic initialization file, mosaic.ini, is completely user configurable from
- the <B>Options, Preferences... menus.</B>
-
- <P ALIGN=CENTER>
- <B><I>"Do not edit the mosaic.ini file with an ASCII editor."</I></B>
- </P>
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-
- <H2 ALIGN=CENTER><A NAME="Win32s">Win32s Update Information</A></H2>
-
- <DL>
- <DT><H4 ALIGN=CENTER> Windows NT users and Win95 beta-testers</H4>
- <DD>Windows NT and Win95 users don't need Win32s. The operating systems
- are 32-bit operating systems with OLE support built-in. Do not install
- Win32s on WinNT or Win95 systems.
- <P>
- <DT><H4 ALIGN=CENTER>Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups Users</H4>
- <DD><H5 ALIGN=CENTER>Latest Release: <A HREF="ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mosaic/Windows/w32sOLE.exe">
- Win32s with OLE, version 1.25</A></H5>
-
- <P>
- <DD>This latest version of Win32s addresses the National Language Support problem and
- the compobj.dll problem some Windows users were experiencing with Win32s v1.20. We recommend you
- upgrade to this latest version if you use a language other than English(American) in your Windows
- environment. We also recommend you upgrade if you have experienced problems with the compobj.dll
- library while using Microsoft Office, Excel or Word. In general, if you are NOT experiencing
- problems with Win32s v1.20, upgrading to Win32s v1.25 is not necessary.
- </DL>
-
- <HR>
- <A NAME="Feature"><H1 ALIGN=CENTER>Features, Enhancements, and Bug fixes</H1></A>
-
- <H3 ALIGN=CENTER>Features and Enhancements</H3>
- <UL>
- <LI><A HREF="#IMAGE">Internal Image Support</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#Toolbar">Toolbar interface for NEWS</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#Help">Help</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#HTML">New HTML support</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#FTP">New FTP Support</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#Hot">Hot Key Mapping</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#Sound">Sound Scheme Mapping</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#MD5">MD5 Authentication</A>
- <LI>Speed improvements
-
- </UL>
-
- <H3 ALIGN=CENTER>Dead Bugs</H3>
-
- <UL>
- <LI>Hotlist manager more stable and shouldn't crash.
- <LI>Document source is displayed for cached and local files.
- <LI>Text and images within the same cell of a table get formatted correctly.
- <LI>Printing has been improved.
- <LI>Print not sizing properly (right margin truncating words)
- <LI>Forms controls are sized according to the form control font.
- <LI>Many other forms related bugs have been fixed
- <LI>Palette problems in 256 color mode should be fixed.
- <LI>URLs larger than 256 characters won't crash Mosaic.
- <LI>Win 95 scroll crashing and scroll related problems
- <LI>Find/Search won't crash
- <LI>< IMG SRC=" " > && < IMG SRC= > don't crash
- <LI><Hn>...</Hn> tags inside <HEAD> no longer cause
- all normal text to appear as <Hn>
- <LI>Other <HEAD> related bugs fixed
- <LI>Document source displays before the images are paginated.
- <LI>Mosaic won't download files after you cancel an unrecognized MIME type.
- <LI>proxy server definitions: http://machine.name:portnumber/ == machine.name:portnumber
- <LI>Newsgroup updates w/o defined NNTP server won't hang Mosaic.
- <LI>Tables: text wrapping within a cell won't take on the characteristics of the
- <address> font
- <LI>Mosaic will find internal anchors in stand alone mode.
- <LI>Mosaic will let Telnet apps take to foreground.
- <LI><A HREF=""> and <A HREF=" "> are ignored.
- <LI>mailto: from location bar works. ie. mailto:jdoe@your.com
- <LI>Mosaic recognizes SMTP IP number addressing.
- <LI>Incorrect password for FTP login allows you to retype the password.
- <LI>many more dead bugs.......
- </UL>
- <HR>
-
-
-
- <H4 ALIGN=CENTER><A NAME="IMAGE">Internal Image Support</A></H4>
-
- Mosaic supports GIF and JPEG image files internally. Use the Viewers Preferences menu to configure
- Mosaic to display images within the Mosaic windows. Open the viewers preferences menu and
- scroll to the image/gif MIME type. When image/gif is displayed in the "Associate MIME Type of:"
- field, enter "internal" in the "To This Application" field. For Example:
- <TABLE>
- <TR><TH>Associate MIME Type of:</TH><TD>image/gif</TD></TR>
- <TR><TH>Description of MIME Type:</TH><TD>Image File Format - GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)</TD></TR>
- <TR><TH>With this/these Extension:</TH><TD>.gif</TD></TR>
- <TR><TH>To This Application:</TH><TD>internal</TD></TR>
- </TABLE>
-
- Make the same change to the image/jpeg MIME type.
-
- <HR>
-
-
- <H4 ALIGN=CENTER><A NAME="Toolbar">Toolbar interface for NEWS</A></H4>
-
- The Mosaic News Toolbar is another interface to the newsgroup tools. The toolbar can be moved
- to any border on the window or it can stand alone out side of the Mosaic window. To move the
- toolbar select an area in the toolbar between the buttons, left click and drag the toolbar
- to the desired location.
- <P ALIGN=CENTER><IMG SRC="TOOLBAR.GIF" ALT"Mosaic News Toolbar image">
- </P>
-
- A list of tools available from the news toolbar. From left to right:
- <P ALIGN=CENTER>
- <TABLE>
- <TR><TH>Previous Article</TH> <TD>View the previous news article</TD></TR>
- <TR><TH>Next Article</TH> <TD>View the next news article</TD></TR>
- <TR><TH>Previous Topic</TH> <TD>View the previous news topic</TD></TR>
- <TR><TH>Next Topic</TH> <TD>View the next news topic</TD></TR>
- <TR><TH>Post</TH> <TD>Post an article to the present newsgroup</TD></TR>
- <TR><TH>Follow-up</TH><TD>Publically reply to an article in a newsgroup</TD></TR>
- <TR><TH>Reply</TH><TD>Privately reply to the author of a newsgroup article.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TH>Article List</TH> <TD>Return to the list of news artilces</TD></TR>
- <TR><TH>Catch up</TH> <TD>Mark all files a being read. </TD></TR>
- <TR><TH>Next Newsgroup</TH> <TD>View articles from your next listed newsgroup.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TH>Previous Newsgroup</TH> <TD>View articles from the previous newsgroup.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TH>New Subscriptions </TH> <TD>Open the News Subscriptions page to update the current list
- of newsgroups. </TD></TR>
- </TABLE>
-
- <HR>
- <H4 ALIGN=CENTER><A NAME="Help">Help</A></H4>
-
- Mosaic supports Windows help. The mosaic.hlp file was installed in the Mosaic directory
- during Mosaic's installation. You can open
- the Mosaic help from the Help menu, the question mark on the toolbar or by selecting F1 from the
- keyboard. Mosaic help is context sensitive and you click on the area where you need help.
-
-
-
- <HR>
- <H3 ALIGN=CENTER><A NAME="HTML">New HTML Support</A></H3>
-
- <UL>
- <LI><B>HTML 3.0 BODY tag attributes</B>
-
- <DL>
- <DD>Spice up your web documents with Background images; change the color of the background,
- the text, unvisited links and visited links. The following attributes to the body tag allow
- you to add character to your Web documents. We've put a few
- <A HREF="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/WinMosaic/Backgrnd/">
- sample background image files</A>
- together on our home page. Check them out. ;^)
- </DL>
- <P>
- Here is a sample of a BODY tag with the image and color attributes:
- <P>
-
- <BODY BACKGROUND="mosaicbk.gif" BGCOLOR=#C0C0C0 TEXT=#000000 LINK=#0000FF VLINK=#FF0000 >
-
- </UL>
-
- <P ALIGN=CENTER>
- <TABLE BORDER>
- <TR><TD>BACKGROUND="mosback2.gif"</TD><TD>Defines the path to an image.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>BGCOLOR=#C0C0C0</TD><TD>Defines the background color</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>TEXT=#000000</TD><TD>Defines the text color</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>LINK=#0000FF</TD><TD>Defines an unvisited link color</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>VLINK=#FF0000</TD><TD>Defines the visited link color</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>#0000FF</TD><TD>Defines the RGB value of a color</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD COLSPAN=2># = define, 00 = R, 00 = G, FF = B </TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>For Example</TD><TD>#C0C0C0 = Grey<BR>#000000 = Black<BR>
- #0000FF = Blue<BR> #00FF00 = Green</TD></TR>
- </TABLE>
- <P>
-
- <UL>
- <LI><B>Base Address</B>
- <DL>
- <DT><BASE="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/WinMosaic/">
- <DD>
- The BASE element is defined in the HEAD of a document. It is used to define the
- base address of a document to help resolve relative links from the document.
- </DL>
-
-
- <LI><B>mailto: Title Attribute</B>
-
- </UL>
- <A HREF="mailto:jdoe@your.com" TITLE="Mailto from the release notes page">
- <P>
- You can enter a default message title or subject from your mailto references.
-
- <HR>
- <H4 ALIGN=CENTER><A NAME="FTP">New FTP Support</A></H4>
-
- <UL>
- <LI>Mosaic's FTP supports both active and passive FTP connections. With the
- addition of Active FTP support, Mosaic should be able to connect to any FTP
- server on the Internet.
-
- <P>
- <LI>Mosaic has support of the FTP "put" command. You can transfer a file from your machine to a
- remote machine using this right mouse menu feature. The feature is only active
- when you log into an FTP server. By default Mosaic tries to FTP via anonymous FTP.
- However, using following syntax in the location field you can FTP to any machine you
- have an account.
-
- <P ALIGN=CENTER>ftp://jdoe@your.com</P>
-
- Mosaic prompts you for a login password. After you've logged in, you can put files
- on the remote machine using the "Upload File to Server" option from the right mouse
- menu.
-
-
- <HR>
- <H4 ALIGN=CENTER><A NAME="Hot">Hot Key Mapping</A></H4>
-
- <P><LI>New hot key mappings
- </UL>
- <TABLE>
- <TR><TH>Alt+Enter</TH><TD> Opens the Preferences menus</TD></TR>
- <TR><TH>A or a </TH><TD>Add to hotlist</TD></TR>
- <TR><TH>End</TH><TD> End is mapped to the bottom of the current page.</TD></TR>
- </TABLE>
- <HR>
- <H4 ALIGN=CENTER><A NAME="MD5">MD5 Authentication</A></H4>
- Mosaic supports HTTPD v1.1 MD5 access authentication.
-
- <HR>
- <H4 ALIGN=CENTER><A NAME="Sound">Sound Scheme Mapping</A></H4>
-
- The Audio preferences menu has an additional feature to allow you to save sound
- schemes as separate files. The sound scheme files map the current Mosaic features
- to WAVE audio files and save the associations in a file with the .snd extension.
- We've had a lot of fun putting together
- <A HREF="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/WinMosaic/Audio/">
- various sound schemes</A>. Check them out.
-
-
- <HR>
- <ADDRESS>
- <A HREF="mailto:mosaic-w@ncsa.uiuc.edu">mosaic-w@ncsa.uiuc.edu</A><BR>
- <A HREF="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/">
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications</A><BR>
- <A HREF="http://www.uiuc.edu/">
- The University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign</A>
- </ADDRESS>
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