X Windows networked information browser
This version of Mosaic 2.4 has patches added that make it work with the "Term" program also contributed by Tom Kelly. With Term and Mosaic, you can use Mosaic from home, over a modem with pretty good performance!
To use it with term, you first need to be running term on your computer at home. See the man page for term for information on how to set that up. Then use the -term option to Mosaic to request that it use a term connection instead of TCP/IP.
Be sure to read in the term man page about the environment variable TERM_BORROWED_DISPLAY_NUMBER, and to set it the same way when you invoke the term server and Mosaic -term.
Note that connection attempts cannot be aborted when using Mosaic -term. If the remote site does not respond, your term session will hang until it times out.
This version of Mosaic 2.4 has also been compiled with support for direct access to WAIS servers. It is no longer necessary to rely on an intermediate WAIS gateway to service such requests. To convert a URL which uses a WAIS gateway to one which accesses the WAIS server directly, replace the gateway specification with "wais://". For example, "http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu:8001/cmns-moon.think.com/WWP?" becomes "wais://cmns-moon.think.com/WWP?"