NCSA Mosaic for the Macintosh - 1.0.3 Release

NCSA Mosaic is COPYRIGHTED by the University of Illinois.  
See copyright notice in the ftp directory and on-line.

What is NCSA Mosaic 
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NCSA Mosaic is a distributed hypermedia browser designed for
information discovery and retrieval.  It provides a unified interface
to the diverse protocols, data formats and information archives
used on the Internet. 

Basic Information
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For those of you behind Firewalls:  We are starting a Firewall 
mailing list in hopes of trying to solve the problems associated here.
To join this list, mail the developers and put FIREWALL in your
subject line.

To run this tool you will need the following; System 7.0 (or higher), 
MacTCP (2.0.4 is preferred - 1.x has bugs that will result in memory 
problems) and a network connection (Apple Remote Access can be 
used through a modem for the network connection).  

NCSA Mosaic should function on all types of Macintoshes, including 
the SE and the Classic.

NCSA Mosaic is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu 
in directory /Mac/Mosaic as NCSAMosaicMac.103.sit.hqx

The NCSAMosaicMac.103.sit.hqx has been stuffed using Stuffit 1.5 and 
has been encoded using Binhex 4.0.  You can un-binhex and un-stuff the 
file using any utility which handles these compression schemes.  If you 
donÍt have one try StuffitExpander  (it nicely handles both schemes)
located in the Mac/Mosaic directory.  In order to un-binhex the expander 
follow the directions in Binhex.README located in Mac/Utilities.

Also read the QuickStart Installation Guide, QuickStart.Txt, in 
the Mac/Mosaic directory.  

Bugs and Improvements for 1.0.3:  (For a comprehensive list of 
features check the Macintosh home page.)

Bug Fixes
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- There were several bugs that caused serious CRASHES. These have been fixed. 
- Reloading during an image load has been fixed. 
- Preferences bug has been fixed. 
- Styles bug has been fixed. 
- FTP would fail if there was a character with ASCII > 128 in response string. 
- When load of image failed for some reasons (memory, bad gif), the file would not be deleted. 
  This is now done, resulting in a cleaner Temp folder. 
- XBMs didn't read the last line causing some XBMS to not read correctly. 

New Features
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- Improved Speed 
- Non-anonymous ftp works now. The syntax is file://user:password@host/ 
- Anonymous FTP is now more robust. 

Please Send comments, suggestions and bug reports to 
mosaic-mac@ncsa.uiuc.edu. You have been a great help in making 
Mosaic a good, stable application.

Enjoy
Mosaic for the Mac Development Team.
Aleks Totic, Tom Redman, Kim Stephenson & Mike McCool
University of Illinois
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
152 CAB
605 E. Springfield
Champaign, IL  61820