Warning - this document is out of date, and many of the links are to missing files. I don't plan on updating it, and will delete it at some later point in time. However, it still provides a good example of how you can turn a document structured by it's type into HTML. These days, you should consider using XML instead of SGML, as XML is a simpler format.
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 and the Amiga Mosaic site.
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.
AMosaic version 1.2 works with 2.x Amigas. You need AmigaOS 3.x to view inlined images. Other versions (including 1.2.1) work only on AmigaOS 3.x.
AMosaic uses 3.x's DataTypes system to display inlined images.
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.
Because you don't have MUI installed, or don't have a recent enough version for Amiga Mosaic. Install the latest version.
We like MUI. It made creating AMosaic much easier for us.
This is fixed in Amiga Mosaic 1.4 and later. If you can't run those versions, then don't do that.
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.
You have to use version 1.4 beta or later.
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.
Because it isn't implemented yet.
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.
For MUI 2,3, run the MUI application, and take the following steps in it:
You may need to run and exit Amiga Mosaic before you can select it in the application selector.
For MUI 3.1, start with the MUI application, doing the folllowing:
Now, run Amiga Mosaic (or find it's window if it was running), and notice that there's a gadget that looks like the one you just enabled in the MUI application. Click on it, then click on the "Settings" item in the resulting menu. It brings up what looks like the MUI preferences editor. In that, do the following:
Amiga Mosaic should move to that screen.
Almost certainly not. AMosaic is a port of NCSA X Mosaic, and the right to sell it commercially requires a rather expensive license.
However, at least three different Amiga GUI web browsers are being written from scratch. The group that did Amiga Mosaic is working on one of them, and it will be commercial.
Yes, from the Omnipresence FTP server.
Send the message "subscribe amosaic" to the address "majordomo@omnipresence.com". Or, if you'd prefer to subscribe to the digest version and get one combined message per night, send the message "subscribe amosaic-digest" to the same address.
There are a number of other web browsers available. See the amiga browsers page for a current list.
[Authors note: I'm including both commercial and non-commercial references, along with how to find either them or more information. This is not an endorsement, merely a pointer to more information.]
For a general discussion of AmiTCP issues, including application lists and help getting started, see the AmiTCP FAQ.
Multilink (normally MLink) functions somewhat like TIA, but uses it's own protocol with replacement stacks, with source available for the Unix end. If you're considering TIA, you might want to look at the Multilink support page.
"Connect Your Amiga! A Guide to the Internet, LANs, BBSs and Online Services," by Dale L. Larson. ISBN 1-885876-02-5, US$24.95. For more info:
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Yes. You can find a copy of the Amiga Web Server (AWS) on the AWS site.
The other Amiga-native WWW server is awebserver, available from aminet.
If you prefer the NCSA http daemon, Graham Walter did an excellent port. It is available from the Amiga Mosaic site.
A more recent port of Apache - derived from the NCSA httpd - is also available from Aminet.
Inetd assumes that nobody would want to connect to a service more than 10 times a minute. For AmiTCP 3.0b2, this is hardwired into the code, and cannot be changed without source. You can ftp a patched version of inetd for AmiTCP 3.0b2. For AmiTCP 4.1 and later, you can use the TOOMANY option on inetd to change this from the default value of 60 connections/minute.
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