NCSA Mosaic for the X Window System


NCSA Mosaic Command-Line Flags

Herein are detailed the available NCSA Mosaic command-line flags. 

-color 
   Tells NCSA Mosaic to use color for its user interface; this is the default behavior. 
-dil (new for version 2.0) 
   Turns on delayed image loading. This is equivalent to setting the delayImageLoads X resource. 
-ghbnie 
   This tells Mosaic not to use the gethostbyname() call to find out what the current machine's full hostname is; if you're running on a Sun that
   coredumps when Mosaic tries to do this on program startup, you can either use this command-line flag or just set resource gethostbynameIsEvil to
   true. 
-home document 
   Specifies the document URL to access on program startup. See also information on specifying your home document. 
-ics integer (new for version 2.0) 
   Sets the maximum image cache size in kilobytes. Default is 2048. Using this command-line flag is equivalent to setting the imageCacheSize
   resource. 
-mono 
   Tells NCSA Mosaic to use monochrome colors for its user interface. (Please note that there is no X resource that has this effect; you must either
   specify it on the command line or compile NCSA Mosaic with the -DMONO_DEFAULT flag enabled.) 
-ngh 
   Tells NCSA Mosaic not to read or write the global history file that keeps track of where you've been in previous sessions. 
-tmpdir directory 
   Specifics the directory to be used to store temporary files generated by Mosaic. This directory should have plenty of space, ideally at least 10 or 20
   megabytes, in case you happen to pull down a very large data file. Using this flag is equivalent to setting the resource tmpDirectory or setting the
   environment variable TMPDIR. 

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