netscape - Invokes Netscape (R) Communicator for the World
Wide Web
netscape [options] [{ file | URL } ...]
Specifies the X Window System server to use for display.
The specification 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, respectively. 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 options and
their meanings. 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 option.) If unspecified, the first window
found is used. Instructs Netscape to install a
private colormap. Forces Netscape to use one-bitdeep
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 different
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 option.
Causes Netscape to set a specific X Window System
resource. See the sample file
/usr/doc/netscape/Netscape.ad for a list of the
available resources and their meanings.
Specifies a local file to be viewed. Specifies a Uniform
Resource Locator (URL) address to be viewed.
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 language. You can also
access FTP directories, Gopher archives, and other types
of objects.
Netscape (R) Communicator includes the following segments
with the capabilities described. Netscape Navigator
enables you to access the wealth of information and network
applications on corporate intranets and the Internet.
You can easily access information from a variety of
sources, from the latest Web sites to legacy corporate
databases. Netscape Messenger enables you to create rich
HTML email with embedded images. It also allows you to
encrypt and decrypt your messages for privacy, use filters
to automatically organize your incoming messages into
folders, and quickly look up email addresses. Netscape
Collabra provides discussion forums that make it easy to
share information and create a knowledge base that people
can access at any time. You can reduce the need for faceto-face
meetings and save time by exchanging ideas and
information through discussion groups. You can also cut
down on mass email by using Netscape Collabra to disseminate
company information and announcements. Netscape Composer
document creation capabilities provide a simple yet
powerful solution for editing and publishing online documents.
What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) editing
allows users to create dynamic online documents easily and
publish them to local file systems and remote servers with
ease.
Through the use of helper applications, you can view files
for which Netscape itself does not provide support. Document
types and their corresponding helper applications are
specified in your $HOME/.mailcap file.
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 preferences 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 mostused
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 HP, the home page is the Tru64 UNIX InfoCenter,
from which you have access to documentation and other
services on your local Tru64 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 resource-spec option, 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 complete
information about setting options and preferences.
Extensive online assistance is accessible from Netscape's
Help menu.
Shell script for converting Mosaic hotlist files to
Netscape bookmark format. Sample X Window System resource
file.
netscape(1)
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