Help On Mosaic v0.8

If you have accessed this document from the Help On Version menu selection in X Mosaic, you are using version 0.8.

Version 0.8 is intended to be a fairly stable pre-1.0 release. It is anticipated that little functionality will be added prior to the release of 1.0, as we have to spend time on some other things for the near future (gatewaying to real databases, building asynch collab servers, etc.).

Version 0.8 includes the following changes from version 0.7:

Telnet access is enabled for IBM systems (and others that don't define 'unix' by default).
TN3270 access is now available (probably will only work on IBM systems).
Underline setting now carries from window to window like it should.
Stupid little bugs nailed in open local file routines.
More stupid little bugs nailed in opening multiple windows.
Fixed buglet with text fields on some platforms.
Most plaintext documents can now be annotated (except for results of WAIS queries and those that use <plaintext> explicitly).
Annotate and Edit Annotation menubar entries disabled for stupid Ultrix, since the annotation window causes a spurious BadWindow error for no apparent reason at all.
Better colors (including brighter colors on non-SGI platforms).
Makefile option to compile with mono colors as the default.
Revised copyright notice.
A few random bugfixes and cleanups.

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