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- Version 1.2 of NCSA Mosaic for the X Window System, a networked
- information systems and World Wide Web browser, is now available:
-
- file://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mosaic/xmosaic-source/xmosaic-1.2.tar.Z
- .../xmosaic-binaries/xmosaic-sun.Z
- .../xmosaic-binaries/xmosaic-sun-lresolv.Z
- .../xmosaic-binaries/xmosaic-sgi.Z
- .../xmosaic-binaries/xmosaic-ibm.Z
- .../xmosaic-binaries/xmosaic-dec.Z
- .../xmosaic-binaries/xmosaic-alpha.Z
- .../xmosaic-diffs/xmosaic-1.1-1.2-diffs.Z
-
- I'm flirting with fate by putting this out right before I fly to a
- conference for the rest of the week, but it seems to be stable. Any
- serious bugs will be fixed this weekend.
-
- Changes since 1.1 include:
-
- o Binary transfer mode, when on, now forces all files to be treated as
- binary, whether or not their extensions are recognized. (Due to
- overwhelming popular request.)
- o Gopher file types are now picked up on the basis of file extension, if a
- file extension exists, with the default being the normally assumed
- type. This means that "foo.ps" returned as type '0' (text) is interpreted
- as PostScript, etc. Resource tweakGopherTypes (default True) can be
- set to False to turn this off and interpret Gopher documents stricly by
- the Gopher typing system.
- o Resource postscriptViewerCommand is now "dump" by default. This
- is because ghostview (the previous default), as currently shipped, runs
- ghostscript in unsafe mode and a malicious PostScript file could cause
- damage to your filesystem as a result.
- o Added fullHostname resource to allow explicit setting of the fully
- qualified hostname (machine.domain). We recommend you don't use
- this resource (allow Mosaic to determine your full hostname on the
- fly) unless your system chokes on gethostbyname().
- o Fixed problem with annotationServer resource set and annotation
- server not available or network down.
- o Fixed problem with missing title (or author) in annotation.
- o Fixed occasional coredump in File->Reload.
- o Fixed occasional crash with inlined images after windows have been
- closed.
- o Made failure of gethostbyname() robust (coredumps actually inside
- gethostbyname() must still be dealt with by the gethostbynameIsEvil
- resource).
- o Fixed coredump when checking for editable annotation property when
- document contains no text.
- o Fixed coredump when closing window if hotkey is hit while window
- is still open but in the process of being destroyed.
- o Local files should now always be automatically canonicalized into a
- full URL of form file://hostname/full/path/filename -- this applies to
- command-line arguments and to filenames passed through
- File->Open.
- o Now recognize file://localhost/ scheme for expressly accessing local
- files.
- o Fixed problem with multiline FTP server responses (courtesy John
- Ockerbloom).
- o Fixed problem with ".." in FTP directory resulting in slash falling off
- of toplevel URL and subsequent jumps failing.
- o Fixed problem with trailing slashes in FTP directory specifications
- that were causing part of the directory name to be used twice.
- o Changed sgimoviePlayerCommand default to movieplayer, which
- actually exists on some SGI systems.
- o Made a few changes to menubar Documents and Help menus.
- o Cleaned up lots of typecasting warnings in Xmx code.
- o Fixed problem with Motif 1.2 and file insertions in annotate window.
- o Fixed problem with double quotes in titles of group annotations.
- o Added resource reverseInlinedBitmapColors to allow reversal of
- foreground and background colors in inlined XBM bitmaps.
- o Fixed problem with group annotations on URL's containing pound
- signs (normally this never happens, but it will happen for HDF files in
- Mosaic 2.0).
- o Added confirmation box for deleting annotations from the menubar;
- added resource confirmDeleteAnnotation, defaults to true.
- o Correctly recognizes mis-suffixed HTML files starting with <head>,
- <html>, and <HTML> tags also now.
- o XPM3-format inlined image support fixed.
-
- This release of NCSA 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).
- DECstation 5000-200 (Ultrix).
- DEC Alpha (OSF/1 1.2).
-
- Rumor has it that Mosaic will compile on systems like:
-
- Hewlett Packard HP/UX 7.x, 8.x, 9.x.
- Dell SVR4
- Sun Solaris 2.x
- SCO Open Desktop
- Harris Nighthawk
- NeXT BSD
-
- Documentation is available online within Mosaic. 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 & Eric
-
-