NCSA Mosaic for MS Windows User Guide: Customizing


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

