Other Mosaic/WWW Software
This document contains pointers to software of interest to NCSA Mosaic and World Wide Web users. Many of the following links are to sites not connected to NCSA. Questions or comments on non-NCSA software and servers should
not
be directed to NCSA.
NCSA Mosaic for the X Window System
HTML Converters and Editors
Server Software
Other Tools for Information Providers
- Perl: interpreted programming language; great for building custom servers and information management tools. (Distribution directory
here; TeXinfo manual
here.)
- Jef Poskanzer's PBM library
(pbmplus); great for image conversions and manipulations.
NCSA Mosaic Resources
- X Play Gizmo
(a control panel for sound players and movie viewers)
- xv
(default viewer for gif, jpeg, rgb, and tiff images)
- showaudio
(default sound player) It is inside the metamail distribution.
- mpeg_play
(default mpeg movie player)
- xdvi
(default dvi viewer)
- metamail
(default mime viewer)
- ghostview
(suitable for use as PostScript viewer)
- freeWAIS
(required to compile Mosaic with direct WAIS support)
Other WWW Browsers
Other NCSA Software