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- With a bang and a whimper, beta version 0.8 of NCSA's Motif-based
- networked information systems and World Wide Web browser, X Mosaic, is
- hereby released:
-
- file://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/xmosaic/xmosaic-0.8.tar.Z
-
- This release of X Mosaic is known to compile on the following
- platforms:
-
- SGI (IRIX 4.0.2)
- IBM (AIX 3.2)
- Sun 4 (SunOS 4.1.2 with stock X11R4 and Motif 1.1).
- DEC Ultrix.
-
- Binaries for these platforms are available:
-
- file://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/xmosaic/binaries-0.8
-
- More binaries will be supplied as I am able to find other
- Motif-configured platforms to use. (Contributions of working binaries
- are welcome.) Documentation is available online, but is temporarily
- out of date (I'll probably bring it up to date this weekend).
-
- Changes since 0.7 include:
-
- o Telnet access is enabled for IBM systems (and others that don't define
- 'unix' by default).
- o TN3270 access is now available (probably will only work on IBM
- systems).
- o Underline setting now carries from window to window like it should.
- o Stupid little bugs nailed in open local file routines.
- o More stupid little bugs nailed in opening multiple windows.
- o Fixed buglet with text fields on some platforms.
- o Most plaintext documents can now be annotated (except for results of
- WAIS queries and those that use <plaintext> explicitly).
- o Annotate and Edit Annotation menubar entries disabled for stupid Ultrix,
- since the annotation window causes a spurious BadWindow error for no
- apparent reason at all.
- o Better colors (including brighter colors on non-SGI platforms).
- o Makefile option to compile with mono colors as the default.
- o Revised copyright notice.
- o A few random bugfixes and cleanups.
-
- Although this is beta software, I'm looking more for feedback on
- design and functionality than bug reports right now -- down the road
- the bulk of the program will be rewritten in C++ anyway, so don't take
- the current code too seriously. But bug reports are welcome too. New
- releases will probably come out about every 7-14 days until 1.0
- arrives.
-
- Finally, thanks again to everyone who's contributed comments and bug
- reports -- keep 'em coming.
-
- Cheers,
- Marc & Eric
-
-