[Info-vax] ANN: VMS Mosaic 4.2

[roytam at gmail.com]

Hello,

George Cook writes:
> In article <2beae$46db76c0$cef8887a$17501 at TEKSAVVY.COM>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> > George Cook wrote:
> >> Release 4.2 of VMS Mosaic is now available at
> >>     ftp://alpha.wvnet.edu/mosaic/mosaic4_2.zip
> > 

I seems that both http://vaxa.wvnet.edu/ and ftp://alpha.wvnet.edu/ are down.

> > 
> > How dare you release this on a sunday during Labour day (long weekend in 
> > Canada). I'd had to disrupt my rest after a very long bike ride to 
> > download it, unzip it and type @make_mosaic "" "UCX" and wait a few 
> > minutes for it to compile cleanly and give it a try.  Completely 
> > disrupted my evening :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
>  
> It is normally best to not specify the TCP/IP package.  The build
> usually figures it out properly.
> 
> V4.2 will fail at startup for first time Mosaic users (the problem
> will also occur if an old preference file is rewritten using V4.2).
> There is a corrected PREFS.C file for the [.SRC] directory at
> 
>     ftp://alpha.wvnet.edu/mosaic/prefs.c
> 
> I also updated all the prebuilt executables at
> 
>     ftp://alpha.wvnet.edu/mosaic/exe/
> 
> 
> George Cook
> WVNET