Help On NCSA Mosaic Version 0.9
If you have accessed this document from the Help On Version menu
selection in NCSA Mosaic, you are
using version 0.9.
Version 0.9 includes the following changes from version 0.8:
- Some multimedia support. Yew asked for it...
- GIF, JPEG, TIFF, audio, AIFF, DVI, MPEG, MIME, XWD, PostScript
automatically recognized.
- Pipe to external viewers (with viewers set via X resource mechanism).
- Also retrieve images, audio over Gopher.
- But not over HTTP (unless you're running a modified HTTP server).
- Inlined MIME/multimedia support will be coming down the road, so this is
all just a temporary hack.
- Transparent handling of compressed (.Z) files.
- Hotlist now *always* saved after modification.
- Fixed occasional infinite loop/crash for some 8-bit documents.
- Fixed various parsing bugs associated with using <xmp>
instead of <plaintext> internally.
- Links to specific anchors now work properly.
- Fixed bug with failure in repeated accesses via FTP.
- Fixed bug with spurious ^M's in Gopher anchors.
- Fixed bug opening local file while visiting remote file.
- Fixed display bug with punctuation falling off end of line.
- Fixed problem with BadAlloc crashes on some servers.
- Annotation text features.
- Choice of annotation links in header or footer.
- Automatic (& fast) updating of annotations on every document view.
- New defaultAuthorName resource to override use of normal fullname.
- Annotations now always use machine's full name.
- Menubar item 'Delete This Annotation'.
- Audio annotations (SGI only, so far).
- Fixed BadWindow bug for annotation window on DECstations.
- All plaintext files can now be annotated.
- Fixed occasional problem with size of hotlist/history windows.
- Added sample app-defaults files to distribution.
- New resources for multimedia stuff:
- gifViewerCommand (default 'xv')
- jpegViewerCommand (default 'xv')
- tiffViewerCommand (default 'xv')
- audioPlayerCommand (default 'showaudio' from Metamail distribution)
- aiffPlayerCommand (default 'sfplay' -- SGI specific)
- dviViewerCommand (default 'xdvi')
- mpegViewerCommand (default 'mpeg_play')
- mimeViewerCommand (default 'xterm -e metamail')
- xwdViewerCommand (default 'xwud -in')
- rgbViewerCommand (default 'ipaste' -- SGI specific)
- postscriptViewerCommand
- Deleted annotations now have all corresponding disk files removed.
- Mosaic is smarter about the <plaintext> HTML token
at the head of plaintext files.
- Lots of little cleanups and bug fixes.
Other Information
Information on other versions of NCSA Mosaic is here.
General information on NCSA Mosaic is available here.