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netscape - Invokes Netscape (R) Communicator for the World Wide Web
SYNOPSIS
netscape [options] [{ file | URL } ...]
OPTIONS
Specifies the X Window System server to use for display. The specifi‐
cation is in the form hostname:display. For example:
-display carnifex.spqr.com:0 Specifies the size and location of
the netscape window. Values are in pixels. The W and H values
determine the width and height, respectively, of the window.
The X and Y values, if present, determine the window's horizon‐
tal and vertical positions, respectively. A positive value for
X or Y specifies displacement of the window from the left or top
edge of the display. A negative value specifies displacement
from the right or bottom edge. Causes Netscape to display a
help message listing the command's options and their meanings.
The Netscape application itself is not started. Causes Netscape
to start up minimized instead of starting with its window dis‐
played. Specifies the ID of a window to which remote commands
are to be sent. (See the description of the -remote option.) If
unspecified, the first window found is used. Instructs Net‐
scape to install a private colormap. Forces Netscape to use
one-bit-deep display of images. Text and other non-image ele‐
ments can still be in color. When not using -install, sets the
maximum number of colors to allocate for images to N. Instructs
Netscape to use the default colormap. Instructs Netscape not to
auto-raise the window to which subsequent remote commands are
issued with the -remote command. Instructs Netscape to auto-
raise the window to which subsequent remote commands are issued
with the -remote command. The default condition is to raise the
target window (-raise). Instructs Netscape to execute a command
in a Netscape process that is already running. See the online
Netscape handbook for a list of valid commands. Causes Netscape
to show its version number and build date. The Netscape appli‐
cation itself is not started. Instructs Netscape to use a spe‐
cific X Window System server visual. Server visuals are differ‐
ent ways that a server can handle the mapping of color informa‐
tion (TrueColor, GrayScale, PseudoColor, and so forth). For
information about the available visuals for a particular server,
use the xdpyinfo command. The visual IDs reported by xdpyinfo
can be used as parameters for the -visual option. Causes Net‐
scape to set a specific X Window System resource. See the sam‐
ple file /usr/doc/netscape/Netscape.ad for a list of the avail‐
able resources and their meanings.
OPERANDS
Specifies a local file to be viewed. Specifies a Uniform Resource
Locator (URL) address to be viewed.
DESCRIPTION
The netscape command invokes the Netscape browser for the World Wide
Web. Netscape enables you to view documents (called “pages” or “Web
pages”) that have been formatted with the HTML hypertext markup lan‐
guage. You can also access FTP directories, Gopher archives, and other
types of objects.
Netscape (R) Communicator includes the following segments with the
capabilities described. Netscape Navigator enables you to access the
wealth of information and network applications on corporate intranets
and the Internet. You can easily access information from a variety of
sources, from the latest Web sites to legacy corporate databases. Net‐
scape Messenger enables you to create rich HTML email with embedded
images. It also allows you to encrypt and decrypt your messages for
privacy, use filters to automatically organize your incoming messages
into folders, and quickly look up email addresses. Netscape Collabra
provides discussion forums that make it easy to share information and
create a knowledge base that people can access at any time. You can
reduce the need for face-to-face meetings and save time by exchanging
ideas and information through discussion groups. You can also cut down
on mass email by using Netscape Collabra to disseminate company infor‐
mation and announcements. Netscape Composer document creation capabil‐
ities provide a simple yet powerful solution for editing and publishing
online documents. What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) editing
allows users to create dynamic online documents easily and publish them
to local file systems and remote servers with ease.
Through the use of helper applications, you can view files for which
Netscape itself does not provide support. Document types and their
corresponding helper applications are specified in your $HOME/.mailcap
file.
The netscape window contains a menu bar with menu items that allow you
to open, print, or save pages, to view the source of HTML pages, to
move between pages, to maintain a list of “bookmarks,” to set prefer‐
ences and options, and to perform other useful tasks. Optionally (by
default), Netscape also displays a button bar at the top of its window;
the buttons provide more direct access to the most-used features of the
menus.
If you invoke Netscape with no input file or URL arguments, the program
defaults to display its “home page.” As supplied by HP, the home page
is the Tru64 UNIX InfoCenter, from which you have access to documenta‐
tion and other services on your local Tru64 UNIX system. You can spec‐
ify a different home page using the Preferences choice under Netscape's
Options menu.
Although you can specify X Window System resources using the -xrm
resource-spec option, the most effective way to customize Netscape is
to set the options controlled by the program's Options menu. The
online Netscape handbook, accessible from Netscape's Help menu, pro‐
vides complete information about setting options and preferences.
Extensive online assistance is accessible from Netscape's Help menu.
FILES
Shell script for converting Mosaic hotlist files to Netscape bookmark
format. Sample X Window System resource file.
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