NCSA Mosaic for X 2.0 prerelease 1 available

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Date: Mon, 2 Aug 93 22:33:13 -0500
From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
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Subject: NCSA Mosaic for X 2.0 prerelease 1 available
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......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

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