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- From: amosaicfaq@contessa.phone.net (Mike Meyer)
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- Subject: Amiga Mosaic & WWW Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 00:10:11 PST
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- Summary: This post contains a list of Frequently Asked Questions
- (and their answers) about Amiga Mosaic and WWW software.
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- Archive-name: amiga/AMosaic-faq
- Last-modified: 1997/05/13
- URL: http://www.phone.net/ATCPFAQ/amosaic.html
- Posting-Frequency: semimonthly
- Version: 1.18
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- Amiga Mosaic & WWW Frequently Asked Questions
-
- 1: What is Mosaic?
-
- Mosaic is a client for the World Wide Web. The World Wide Web is a new
- application on the Internet which allows pictures, sounds, animations to
- be viewed from anywhere on the Internet. Amiga Mosaic (AMosaic) is
- available from Aminet <ftp://aminet/comm/net/Mosaic1.2.1_AmiTCP.lha> and
- the Amiga Mosaic site. <ftp://ftp.omnipresence.com/pub/amiga/amosaic>
-
- Mosaic can also be used to access FTP servers from a GUI front end, and to
- access Gopher and many other services. The next release of Mosaic will
- even allow you to connect to telnet services listed on WWW pages.
-
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-
- 2: What version of AmigaOS do I need?
-
- AMosaic version 1.2 works with 2.x Amigas. You need AmigaOS 3.x to view
- inlined images. Other versions (including 1.2.1) work only on AmigaOS 3.x.
-
-
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-
- 3: Why does Amiga Mosaic not do inlined images in AmigaOS 2.x?
-
- AMosaic uses 3.x's DataTypes system to display inlined images.
-
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-
- 4: What networking software do I need?
-
- There are versions of AMosaic 1.2 for use with any of DNET, AmiTCP 3.0b2,
- or AS225r2. Software derived from those two TCP/IP stacks or emulating it
- can also be used. Later versions should all be available for either AmiTCP
- 3.0b2 or AS225r2.
-
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-
- 5: Amiga Mosaic keeps saying "failed to create application" when I try to
- start it. Why?
-
- Because you don't have MUI installed, or don't have a recent enough
- version for Amiga Mosaic. Install the latest version.
-
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-
- 6: Why does AMosaic require MUI? I hate MUI!
-
- We like MUI. It made creating AMosaic much easier for us.
-
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-
- 7: AMosaic crashes when I iconify it, or change the preferences using MUI
- Prefs.
-
- This is fixed in Amiga Mosaic 1.4 and later. If you can't run those
- versions, then don't do that.
-
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-
- 8: Why doesn't Amiga Mosaic display external images?
-
- Could be any number of reasons. First, make sure that you have an
- env:mosaic/mailcap file. Next, make sure that there is an entry in it for
- the type you are trying to display. Finallly, make sure that that entry
- has a %s in the command.
-
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-
- 9: How do I use forms with Amiga Mosaic?
-
- You have to use version 1.4 beta or later.
-
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-
- 10: How do I have Amiga Mosaic use a proxy server?
-
- Set the environment variable for the protocol to the appropriate proxy.
- For example, to cause HTTP request to go to www.hut.fi:8001, set
- HTTP_PROXY to http://www.hut.fi:8001/. This only works with Amiga Mosaic
- 1.3 and above; previous versions use an obsolete proxy protocol.
-
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-
- 11: Why doesn't the NO_PROXY variable work?
-
- Because it isn't implemented yet.
-
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-
- 12: I just get a window popped open on my screen when I tried to play at
- an external sound/view an external image:
- Title=AmiTCP:bin
- Please send email to witbrock@cs.cmu.edu
- telling him that you passed through the unsupported
- pipe code and which URL it happened on. Also say:
- file HTFWriter.c:HTSaveAndExecute line 461 compiled Jun 14 1994 20:07:49
-
- The problem is that you removed the %s from the line handling audio in
- your mailcap file. Amosaic is trying to pipe the audio to your player, but
- it can't. You need to fix your mailcap file.
-
- This answer applies to non-audio data too, and to versions of mosaic more
- recent than 1.3. As a side note, hours of fun can be had by turning up the
- speakers loud and playing that URL with a cat in the room.
-
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-
- 13: How do I get Mosaic to open on it's own screen?
-
- For MUI 2,3, run the MUI application, and take the following steps in it:
-
- 1) Make sure you are on the "System" page.
-
- 2) Change application selector from "½Global╗" to "AmigaMosaic".
-
- 3) Use the screen selector to create a new public screen for Mosaic.
-
- 4) Edit it as appropriate.
-
- 5) Exit MUI with the Save button.
-
- You may need to run and exit Amiga Mosaic before you can select it in the
- application selector.
-
- For MUI 3.1, start with the MUI application, doing the folllowing:
-
- 1) Go to the "Windows" page.
-
- 2) Click on the button closest to the "Gadgets:" label in the "Window
- Control" frame.
-
- 3) Save this
-
- Now, run Amiga Mosaic (or find it's window if it was running), and notice
- that there's a gadget that looks like the one you just enabled in the MUI
- application. Click on it, then click on the "Settings" item in the
- resulting menu. It brings up what looks like the MUI preferences editor.
- In that, do the following:
-
- 1) Go to the "System" page.
-
- 2) Click the "Call Inspector" button in the "Public Screen" frame.
-
- 3) Set up the screen you want Amiga Mosaic to run on in the resulting
- requester, then save it.
-
- 4) Now, use the screen selector to select that screen.
-
- 5) Save the results.
-
- Amiga Mosaic should move to that screen.
-
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-
- 14: Is there going to be a commercial version of AMosaic?
-
- Almost certainly not. AMosaic is a port of NCSA X Mosaic, and the right to
- sell it commercially requires a rather expensive license.
-
- However, at least three different Amiga GUI web browsers are being written
- from scratch. The group that did Amiga Mosaic is working on one of them,
- and it will be commercial.
-
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-
- 15: Is the source to Amiga Mosaic available?
-
- Yes, from the Omnipresence FTP server
- <ftp://www.omnipresence.com/pub/amiga/mosaic/MosaicSrc.lha>.
-
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-
- 16: How do I subscribe to the AMosaic mailing list?
-
- Send the message "subscribe amosaic" to the address
- "majordomo@omnipresence.com". Or, if you'd prefer to subscribe to the
- digest version and get one combined message per night, send the message
- "subscribe amosaic-digest" to the same address.
-
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-
- 17: Are there any other web browsers for the Amiga?
-
- There are a number of other web browsers available. See the amiga browsers
- page <http://www.phone.net/home/mwm/amiga-browsers.html> for a current
- list.
-
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-
- 18: What other references might be useful?
-
- [Authors note: I'm including both commercial and non-commercial
- references, along with how to find either them or more information. This
- is not an endorsement, merely a pointer to more information.]
-
- For a general discussion of AmiTCP issues, including application lists and
- help getting started, see the AmiTCP FAQ.
- <http://www.phone.net/ATCPFAQ/amitcp.html>
-
- Multilink (normally MLink) functions somewhat like TIA, but uses it's own
- protocol with replacement stacks, with source available for the Unix end.
- If you're considering TIA, you might want to look at the Multilink support
- page. <http://www.hut.fi/~oahvenla/MLink/>
-
- "Connect Your Amiga! A Guide to the Internet, LANs, BBSs and Online
- Services," by Dale L. Larson. ISBN 1-885876-02-5, US$24.95. For more info:
-
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- EMAIL: info@iam.com
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-
- 19: Can I set up a World Wide Web Server with AmiTCP?
-
- Yes. You can find a copy of the Amiga Web Server (AWS) on the AWS site.
- <ftp://ftp.omnipresence.com/pub/amiga/aws/>
-
- The other Amiga-native WWW server is awebserver, available from aminet.
-
- If you prefer the NCSA http daemon, Graham Walter did an excellent port.
- It is available from the Amiga Mosaic site.
- <ftp://ftp.omnipresence.com/pub/amiga/amosaic/httpd.lha>
-
- A more recent port of Apache - derived from the NCSA httpd - is also
- available from Aminet.
-
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-
- 20: How do I keep inetd from saying that httpd is looping?
-
- Inetd assumes that nobody would want to connect to a service more than 10
- times a minute. For AmiTCP 3.0b2, this is hardwired into the code, and
- cannot be changed without source. You can ftp a patched version of inetd
- for AmiTCP 3.0b2. <ftp://ftp.phone.net/pub/mwm/inetd_for_httpd> For AmiTCP
- 4.1 and later, you can use the TOOMANY option on inetd to change this from
- the default value of 60 connections/minute.
-
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-
- 21: What do I need to know about this document?
-
- That the latest version can be found on the world wide web.
- <http://www.phone.net/ATCPFAQ/amosaic.html>
-
- That any changes, corrections or updates should be sent to me
- <mailto:amosaicfaq@contessa.phone.net> and I will do my best to answer
- them.
-
- That it is copyright Mike W. Meyer. Permission is granted for this
- document to be freely distributed complete and unaltered. In addition, any
- portion of this document may be distributed on USENET, so long as the
- credits are included in any portion that includes more than two answers.
- For the purposes of this license, USENET is any data stream or file
- collection which uses all documents posted to any newsgroup I post this
- article to
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