NCSA Mosaic for MS Windows User Guide: Customizing

Services

This dialog box contains information for a variety of services that are frequently used during an NCSA Mosaic session.

Mail

Name:
displays your name, which is attached to all electronic mail messages you send using the Mosaic mail function
E-mail Address:
displays your electronic mail (e.g., Internet) address
SMTP Server:
displays the name of your mail server

FTP

Use Extended FTP
associates meaningful icons for directories and binary, image, and text files as you view the contents of an FTP server; the size of a file is also displayed. If unchecked, only directory and file names are displayed.
Display FTP Messages
opens a separate dialog box listing the messages generated by the FTP server. If unchecked, FTP server messages are not displayed.
Inline FTP Message
displays all messages sent by an FTP server as part of a directory listing

tn3270

tn3270
defines a Telnet application that uses TN3270 terminal emulation to link to IBM mainframes. When you enter a URL in the form tn3270://machine.name in the location bar, Mosaic opens the defined application and prompts the machine for a login.

Network

Timeout
defines the period Mosaic spends while trying to download a document over the network (default is 60 seconds)

Telnet

This block is used to define a Telnet application that logs into a server running a version of the UNIX operating system. If you enter a URL in the location bar in the form telnet://machine.name, Mosaic opens the defined application and prompts the machine for a login.

Path name
displays the path of your Telnet application
(e.g., c:\directory\filename). If you are not sure about the specific path, click Browse to open the standard Browse window. Locate your file.
Telnet applications can use a colon or a space to identify a specific port number. Select one of the options based on your Telnet application requirements.

Host:port radio button
Uses a colon to distinguish the port number as specified in the document URL field
Host port radio button
Uses a space to separate the host from the port number

TCP/IP CCI Server

Mosaic contains a TCP/IP server application that lets your Mosaic session share data and permits remote control of your Mosaic session. The Collaborate feature is one form of TCP/IP CCI server implementation. To learn more about the various commands Mosaic understands via TCP/IP, see
"Function Call Actions" on page G-2.

Enabled
check to enable (disabled by default)
Port
defines the port number to use to send and receive data
Chat Alias
name used when you are logged into a collaborative session