NCSA Mosaic for MS Windows User Guide: Obtaining and Installing Software


NCSA Floppy Disks
If you purchased NCSA Mosaic from NCSA, your package should contain:
- disk 1
- Win32s /OLE software (1 of 3)
- disk 2
- Win32s /OLE software (2 of 3)
- disk 3
- Win32s (3 of 3)
- disk 4
- NCSA Mosaic software (1 of 2)
- disk 5
- NCSA Mosaic software (2 or 2)
- Insert disk 1 into your 3.5 inch drive.
- Open the File Manager, which is located in the Main program group.
- Open the drive that contains disk 1 (a:\ or b:\).
- Double click on Setup.exe, which is the Win32s installation.
- Follow the instructions on the screen.
The Win32s installation program prompts you for disk 2. At the end of the Win32s installation you are asked to install a game called Freecell, a 32-bit application. NCSA recommends you install this game because it verifies a successful Win32s installation.
- Insert disk 3, which is another Win322 disk Follow the instructions on your screen.
- Insert disk 4, the Mosaic installation, into your drive (a:\ or b:\).
- Double click on setup.exe.
- Follow the instructions on the screen.
NOTE: If you don't have a winsock.dll installed on your system, Mosaic operates in stand-alone mode (see "Mosaic as a Local File Browser" on page 6-5).
- Insert disk 4 and install any of the following applications:
- twsk20b.zip, a Shareware winsock application that was successfully tested with Mosaic
- winapps2.zip, other shareware tools (Telnet, ping, chat) for interacting with the Internet (Mosaic can launch telnet sessions under certain conditions)
- lviewp1b.zip, a Shareware image viewer
- qtw11.zip, Freeware files that let you use Windows 3.1x Media Player to view Quick Time movie files
- Speak.exe, a Windows 3.1 PC speaker driver freely available to all licensed Windows 3.1 users
- wplny09b.zip, Freeware that plays sound files through using your sound card
- Read readme.wri.
- Read relnotes.htm.
a. Start Mosaic by doubleclicking on the icon.
b. Select Open Local File from the File menu; open relnotes.htm in the /Mosaic directory.
c. Click OK.

