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I'm off to lunch in a moment, so I'll (try to) be brief. I'm aided in this
by a relative lack of experience on my own part :-).
Mosaic is a software tool for navigating the world wide web and connecting
to and viewing hypertext documents, applications, menus, and so forth.
Mosaic was created by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications
(a great bunch of people with lots of nifty software to their name) and is
available from FTP sites all over the internet. You can even get binaries
of Mosaic for your particular platform (binaries are already-compiled
programs that you can unarchive and run - plug 'n play).
Mosaic is available for IBMpcs, Macs, and UNIX systems. You can ftp it from
the gatekeeper from somewhere under either
pub/net/infosys/mosaic
or
pub/net/infosys/www
As I said last message, the address for gatekeeper is:
gatekeeper.dec.com (16.1.0.2)
Note that you can't use mosaic without a real-time link to the net (I believe
some of the techwr-l subscribers are on UUCP style links, sorry).
