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- NCSA Mosaic for the X Window System User's Guide
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- How to Install
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- System Requirements
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- NCSA Mosaic for the X Window System can be used on most UNIX-based workstations
- (e.g., Sun SPARC, IBM RS/6000, SGI, DEC).
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- NOTE: If you are using a Sun workstation with OpenWindows, warnings may be
- displayed when you start up NCSA Mosaic. They are not serious, and the program
- should start with no lost functionality. When you have NCSA Mosaic working, go
- to the Help menu and select the On FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions). In the
- resulting window, select Something is broken. This document addresses the
- warning messages.
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- Other Software You Need for Full Functionality
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- NCSA Mosaic uses external viewers to display the variety of data file formats
- (images, video, audio, PostScript) on the Internet. For NCSA Mosaic to display
- these files, the external viewers listed below are recommended. (Other viewers
- are available and may be used.)
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- If you need information about installing external viewers, talk with your local
- system administrator. In general, you need to uncompress, untar, and compile the
- files obtained from the anonymous FTP servers. Not all viewers work well with
- all machines. The README file in the software directory usually contains
- information about hardware compatibility.
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- Select Manual from the Help menu for additional information about viewers.
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- ghostview
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- ghostview is the user interface to the ghostscript viewer for PostScript
- ``typeset'' documents. ghostview may be obtained from the UIUC anonymous FTP
- server (uxc.cso.uiuc.edu). Download the following files:
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- /gnu/ghostscript-2.5.2.tar.Z
- /gnu/ghostscript-fonts-2.5.2.tar.Z
- /gnu/ghostview-1.4.1.tar
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- mpeg-play
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- mpeg-play displays MPEG-format animation sequences and video clips. mpeg-play
- may be obtained from the University of California at Berkeley's anonymous FTP
- server (toe.cs.berkeley.edu). Download the following file:
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- /pub/multimedia/mpeg/mpeg_play-2.0.tar.Z
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- showaudio and metamail
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- showaudio is a shell script that can play several audio formats on several
- platforms and is part of the metamail multimedia mail toolkit. metamail
- processes multimedia documents in the MIME format. Obtain metamail from
- Bellcore's anonymous FTP server (thumper.bellcore.com). Download the following
- file (where x refers to the specific version currently available):
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- /pub/nsb/mm2.x.tar.Z
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- xdvi
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- xdvi is a viewer for documents in the DVI format produced by TeX. The xdvi
- viewer is available from this anonymous FTP server (ftp.x.org). Download the
- following file:
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- /contrib/xdvi.tar.Z
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- xv
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- xv is an image display and manipulation utility for GIF, JPEG, TIFF, and several
- other formats of image files. Connect to this anonymous FTP server (ftp.x.org)
- and download the following file for more information:
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- /contrib/xv-version.readme
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- National Center for Supercomputing Applications / mosaic-x@ncsa.uiuc.edu
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