Re: Net Tools

[lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)]

>>I don't know if the Mac version of Mosaic code is available or not.  But
 
>Mosaic is available for the Mac already, but you have to be an Internet site
>to use it (any version - Mosaic does not work unless you are directly
>connected to the Net...)

It all depends on what one means by connected to the net.  For instance,
I know one person who is using MacMosaic using his MacSLIP account to a
internet provider.  That is 'connected to the net'. 

I know another person who is using the Unix X Mosaic, running it local
to his FreeBSD box, then using a protocol called TERM to let the Mosaic
talk over a regular serial line to a TERM process on the other end, which
passes the Internet requests on.  Is _that_ connected to the net?

And of course, I have read the struggles of several IBM PC folk to
use the PC versions of Mosaic locally - one or two claim to be able
to use their version without any networking software talking to anything
outside their box - just displaying HTML files that they have local
to their disk.

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