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netscape(1) General Commands Manual netscape(1) NAME netscape - Invokes Netscape browser for the World Wide Web SYNOPSIS netscape [ flags ] [ { file | URL } ... ] FLAGS 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 horizontal and vertical positions, re- spectively. 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 flags and their mean- ings. The Netscape application itself is not started. Causes Netscape to start up minimized instead of starting with its window displayed. Specifies the ID of a window to which remote commands are to be sent. (See the description of the -remote flag.) If unspecified, the first window found is used. Instructs Netscape to install a private col- ormap. Forces Netscape to use one-bit-deep display of images. Text and other non-image elements 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 application itself is not started. Instructs Netscape to use a specific X Window System server visual. Server visuals are dif- ferent ways that a server can handle the mapping of color information (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 flag. Causes Netscape to set a specific X Window Sys- tem resource. See the sample file /usr/doc/netscape/Netscape.ad for a list of the available resources and their meanings. PARAMETERS Specifies a local file to be viewed. Specifies a Uniform Resource Lo- cator (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. Through the use of helper applications, you can view files such as PostScript files and other documents for which Netscape itself does not provide support. Document types and their corresponding helper appli- cations are specified in your $HOME/.mailcap file. For example, to specify showps as the helper application for PostScript documents, you would add the following line to $HOME/.mailcap: application/postscript; /usr/bin/X11/showps -skipc %s 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 Digital, the home page is the DIGITAL UNIX InfoCenter, from which you have access to doc- umentation and other services on your local DIGITAL UNIX system. You can specify a different home page using the Preferences choice under Netscape's Options menu. Although you can specify X Window System resources using the -xrm re- source-spec flag, 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, provides com- plete information about setting options and preferences. FILES Shell script for converting Mosaic hotlist files to Netscape bookmark format. Sample X Window System resource file. delim off netscape(1)