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From: amosaicfaq@contessa.phone.net (Mike Meyer)
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Subject: Amiga Mosaic & WWW Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
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Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 01:11:14 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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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://max.physics.sunysb.edu/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 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.