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What BROWSERS are available on Athena? The following is a list of current browsers supported on Athena. Please note that newer versions of these browsers continue to come out regularly; thus, this list may not be completely up-to-date. For the most up-to-date information, check out the following URL: http://web.mit.edu/cwis/software/ 1. The newest version of Netscape is available on all Athena workstations. Type: add infoagents netscape & The default version in the infoagents locker is Netscape 4.05. For more information on Netscape Communicator on Athena and for some issues related to moving from Netscape 3.01 to 4.05, see: http://web.mit.edu/infoagents/www/netscape/ Other versions, from 1.12 to 4.05, are also available in infoagents (for a complete list type "add infoagents; ls /mit/infoagents/netscape*". The outland locker frequently has a newer release of netscape as: add outland netscape-beta & 2. Lynx is a text-based browser, available on all Athena workstations, which can be used over dialup. To access it, type: add infoagents lynx The current version in the infoagents locker is lynx 2.7.1; other versions available range from 2.4 to 2.6. Lynx 2.8 is not yet available on athena. 3. Mosaic is available on all Athena workstations. Simply type: add sipb Mosaic & Mosaic is no longer under development; the last relase, 2.7b5, is in the sipb locker. Mosaic 2.4 is available in the infoagents locker. 4. HotJava 1.0 is currently available on Suns only. Simply type: add outland hotjava & 5. Netscape Gold, an HTML editor and browser, is available in the outland locker: add outland netscape-gold & 6. Amaya, another HTML editor/browser, specifically designed for experimenting with new specifications and Web standard extensions, is available in the outland locker: add outland amaya & 7. Internet Explorer is available for the Sun, also from the outland locker. To run it, use the commands: add outland iexplorer & Last Updated: 4/15/98 |
