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 Changes and New Features in V1.2

The following describes the most significant changes which have occurred in HTX between versions V1.1 and V1.2 (the current version).

  1. The default WWW browser used by the findme and showme commands is now Netscape, rather than Mosaic. See §gif if you wish to continue using Mosaic as your browser.

  2. The HTX_NOLINK environment variable may now be used to suppress hypertext re-linking when it is not required.

  3. HTX now creates a directory ($HOME/.htxtmp by default) to hold the temporary files used to communicate with WWW browsers. This enhances the opportunities for communication with browsers running on other machines. The environment variable HTX_TMP may be used to specify an alternative directory for these files if necessary.

  4. The method used to pass local documents to the Netscape WWW browser has changed slightly. This is because the original mechanism no longer works correctly with recent versions of Netscape.

  5. A problem has been fixed which could prevent the Starlink xdisplay utility from being used by HTX to set the DISPLAY environment variable on PC Linux systems. This could prevent a WWW browser from being started unless DISPLAY was already set.

  6. This document (SUN/188) has been revised and updated.


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HTX Hypertext Cross-Reference Utilities
Starlink User Note 188
R.F. Warren-Smith
6th January 1998
E-mail:rfws@star.rl.ac.uk