ncsa mosaic for x available version of ncsa mosaic for the x window system a networked information systems and world wide web browser is hereby released file ftp ncsa uiuc edu mosaic xmosaic source xmosaic tar z xmosaic binaries xmosaic sun z xmosaic binaries xmosaic sgi z xmosaic binaries xmosaic ibm z xmosaic binaries xmosaic dec z xmosaic binaries xmosaic alpha z xmosaic diffs xmosaic diffs z ncsa mosaic provides a consistent and easy to use hypermedia based interface into a wide variety of networked information sources including gopher wais world wide web nntp usenet news techinfo ftp local filesystems archie finger hyper g hytelnet texinfo telnet tn and more this release of ncsa mosaic is known to compile on the following platforms sgi irix ibm aix sun sunos with stock x r and motif and gcc dec ultrix dec alpha axp osf documentation is available online changes since include o added new resource gethostbynameisevil for sun s that coredump when gethostbyname is called to try to find out what their own names are command line flag is ghbnie o explicitly pop down all dialog boxes when document view window is closed for window managers too dull to do so themselves o better visited anchor color for non sgi s o added hqx and uu to list of file extensions handled like tar files o added clear button to open box to allow more convenient cut n paste entries of url s o new resource autoplacewindows if set to false new document view windows will not be automatically positioned by the program itself but it s still up to your window manager just how they re placed o command line flags i and iconic now have desired effect new resource initialwindowiconic can also be used o gif reading code is a little more bulletproof o obscure infinite loop triggered by extra space in img tag fixed o eliminated nonintuitive error message when image can t be read inlined ncsa bitmap is indication enough that something s not right for authors and readers can t do anything about bad images in any case o obscure parsing bug for constructs like address a href text a address fixed o fixed mysterious stupid coredump that only hits suns o fixed stupid coredump on url s like cbl leeds ac uk o fixed buglet in handling rlogin url s o new support for solaris sysvr courtesy dana thumper bellcore com o better support for hp ux x and x courtesy johns hpwarf wal hp com o better support for next courtesy scott shrug dur ac uk o some miscellaneous portability fixes courtesy bingle cs purdue edu o miscellaneous bug fixes and cleanups comments questions and bug reports should be sent to mosaic x ncsa uiuc edu thanks in advance for any feedback you can provide cheers marc marc andreessen software development group national center for supercomputing applications marca ncsa uiuc edu
