Subject: Re: Mosaic?
To: David Brownlee <D.K.Brownlee@city.ac.uk>
From: Ken Nakata <kenn@remus.rutgers.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/20/1995 21:42:57
> On Wed, 20 Sep 1995, Scott Frederick Kaplan wrote:
>
> > Hi all. I am making an effort to compiled Mosaic 2.6 for NetBSD/Mac
> > (and I'd be happy to share the binary with everyone, if I can make it
> > work!) So, first, questions:
David Brownlee replied:
> I think you'll find you're going to need a copy of Motif to compile
> Mosaic...
Exactly.
> now we have a copy of motif (1.2) educational site licence
> here.. and I'm pretty sure we're permitted to distribute statically
> linked binaries using it...
That's what I hear. In fact, I know of a group of people who are
distributing Mosaic binary compiled for NetBSD/X68030, an m68k8k port
to Sharp's X680x0 personal computer family (sold only in Japan,
AFAIK). Maybe it's "Japanized" (meaning supports Japanese double-byte
characters), but that'll do no harm for use in an English environment
(remember X is internationalized by default?). The binary *should*
work under NetBSD/mac68k (or any other m68k8k). I've tried to reach
the site with no success, though. Anyway, here's the URL:
ftp://ftp.ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp/PC-UNIX/NetBSD/NetBSD-X68030/X/Mosaic-X11R6.z
Seems like their ftpd's been down. I contacted the NetBSD/X68030 home
page maintainer on this matter and I hope the situation will be corrected
in the near future.
In the mean time, you can use a WWW browser on X called Chimera 1.65
which I compiled and put onto my anon-ftp area. That is, of course,
if you don't mind using a non-Mosaic browser ;-) URL is as follows:
ftp://remus.rutgers.edu/pub/NetBSD/goodies/chimera-1.65.tar.gz
Cheers,
ken n.
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