NCSA Mosaic for X 2.0 prerelease 1 available

Marc Andreessen (marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Mon, 2 Aug 93 22:33:13 -0500


......ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in /Mosaic/prerelease. Source, plus binaries
for Sun, IBM, SGI.

This prerelease fixes problems with prerelease 0. Changes include:

o Fixes for PostScript printing on non-SGI's and in general.
o Moved "Search Index" button to left side of window.
o Fixed problems keeping img.c from compiling without HDF support.
o Ripped out Documents, Manuals.
o Better Gopher icons (thanks, Kevin Hughes).
o Removed hardcoding of location of help documents. Here's how things
work now: By default, the www.ncsa.uiuc.edu location is used. This can be
overridden in src/Makefile by setting the DOCS_DIRECTORY_DEFAULT
define. This can in turn be overridden by the environment variable
MOSAIC_DOCS_DIRECTORY environment variable, which can in turn be
overridden by the XMosaic*DocsDirectory X resource (which by default is
NULL). How's that?
o Home page is now customizable at compile time by setting
-DHOME_PAGE_DEFAULT to any URL.
o Other things that are customizable at compile time (see src/mosaic.h):
o WHATSNEW_PAGE_DEFAULT
o DEMO_PAGE_DEFAULT
o HTMLPRIMER_PAGE_DEFAULT
o URLPRIMER_PAGE_DEFAULT
o Removed native DMF support.
o Reading a .HDF file that's not an HDF/netCDF file no longer exits on
"ncopen: Not a netcdf file".

No libwww2 support, yet. (In the middle of working on it.)

See README and README-HDF on the FTP server for more info. Comments
and feedback appreciated -- THIS IS UNSUPPORTED CODE, however; if you
want stability, get Mosaic 1.2 (/Mosaic/xmosaic-binaries and
/Mosaic/xmosaic-source).

Cheers,
Marc

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Marc Andreessen
Software Development Group
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu