For further information see: Frequently Asked Questions
New Features in this release of NC Navigator include:
NOTE: If the NC Navigator will be used primarily for email or news reading, it is possible to change which application will open at startup. From the Options drop-down menu, choose General Preferences, select the Appearance tab. In this panel there is a Startup box. There are three choices for On Startup Launch. They are: Navigator Browser, Navigator Mail, or Navigator News. The default is the Navigator Browser.
NC Navigator for the IBM Network Station is a fully compatible subset of the popular Netscape Navigator 3 browser. The following features are supported:
Function | Description | Notes |
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HTML | Compatible with Netscape Navigator 3 | |
MIME Types | HTML, Plain Text, JPEG, GIF and animated GIF | |
FTP | File transfer protocol | RFC 939 |
Proxy Server Support | Proxy server support for HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, WAIS, and Gopher. The NC Navigator can also be configured to act as a SOCKS client with an existing SOCKS server. | |
Automatic Proxy Configuration Support | Allows proxies to be configured on a central server. | |
File operations for URLs to remote file system | Users can save web documents to the host file system. | |
JavaScript | Compatible with Netscape Navigator 3 | JavaScript 1.1 |
HTTP Cookies | Persistent information provided by the server and stored at the client. The client will retransmit the information back to the server based on the URL the user enters. | |
Printing | Print Postscript output to a printer either directly attached to the IBM Network Station or remote printing to a networked printer. | Postscript Level 1 |
Client Side Image Maps | Allows a GIF image to be downloaded with an image map file. | The image map file specifies various hot spots that can send a user to a different URL. The feature allows image map processing independent of a specific web server. |
Java | Allows applets to run in the browser window. | |
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) | Protocol allowing web contents to be transmitted in an encrypted format. | 2.0 and 3.0 |
Certificates | Supports the use of both server and client certificates for authentication. | |
Mailto | Protocol which allows an NC Navigator user to send e-mail to a user on the Internet. | |
Gopher | Protocol which allows an NC Navigator user to view Gopher content. | |
New Features in This Release | Email Client | An application which allows a user to read email as well as send it. |
News Reader | An application which allows a user to read news groups using NNTP. | |
Telnet | A URL specifying telnet: protocol allows a user to connect to remote host server system through a telnet interface via the browser. | |
TN3270 | A URL specifying TN3270: protocol allows a user to launch a 3270 emulation session via the browser. |
Function | Description |
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Helper Applications | Applications which provide a special service, such as viewing PostScript or PDF documents. |
Plug-ins | Software that extends the capabilities of the browser for displaying video, playing audio, etc. |
File Upload (RFC 1867) | Uploading a file via the Common Gateway Interface. |
Certain characteristics of the NC Navigator browser are controlled by the IBM Network Station Manager, an application
that allows an administrator to centrally set and manage some features of the IBM Network Station. Any changes to
these characteristics can only be made through the use of the IBM Network Station Manager, and can be made on a
systemwide basis, groupwide basis, or for a specific user. Since these changes can only be made through the IBM
Network Station Manager they are grayed out when viewed through the browser.
Characteristics of NC navigator that are controlled by the IBM Network Station Manager include:
On the Directory drop-down menu, there is a menu item which will start the IBM Network Station Manager for the
host server system that your IBM Network Station was booted from. If you want to access the IBM Network Station
Manager for another server system, you will need to enter the appropriate URL manually.
Please note that an appropriate level of authority is required to access certain tasks from the Setup Tasks menu in
the IBM Network Station Manager.
There are some basic preferences that may be set by the user, such as fonts displayed, image loading options, home page, etc. These preferences may be set using the preference panels selected from the Options drop-down menu. Other settings are centrally controlled by the IBM Network Station Manager.
To configure this type of button on the IBM Network Station task bar, the user should:
The next time the user logs onto the IBM Network Station, the new button will be visible. Once selected, the web page the URL is targeting should appear within the browser. If the NC Navigator is already running, and this button is selected a new browser pane will appear with the web page loaded.
The NC Navigator, the IBM Desktop Launcher, and the Applet Viewer share the same JVM. The Desktop Launcher allows multiple applets to run concurrently with the single Java Virtual Machine provided with the IBM Network Station. The NC Navigator is simply one application using the Java Virtual Machine.
During this time the JVM, Desktop Launcher, and the Applet Viewer are loaded into memory. In order to run Java applets within the browser all three are necessary. These modules are not loaded until the first Java applet is executed in the browser. After the first applet is run these modules stay in memory, so subsequent applets start faster.
The NC Navigator will support JDK 1.1.4.
The "lock file" is used by the browser to prevent multiple copies of the browser from attempting to update items such as client certificates, bookmarks, and other items that are stored in the file system on a "per-user" basis. The browser creates the lock file when it starts up, and deletes it when it terminates normally. The browser stores the MAC address of the current IBM Network Station in the lock file, along with the current TCP/IP address.
Whenever the browser starts up, it checks for the existence of the lock file (normally, there should not be one). If a lock file exists, the browser compares the MAC address of the current IBM Network Station with the MAC address that is stored in the file. If they are the same, the browser assumes that the previous instance of the browser terminated abnormally and thus it is safe to proceed normally (because only one copy of the browser can run at a time on any IBM Network Station). However, if the MAC addresses are different, the browser assumes that another copy of the browser is currently being executed by the same userid on a different IBM Network Station, and thus it is not safe for it to make updates to its working files.
This pop-up message will occur if:
If you get this message, you will be able to continue using the browser if you click on OK, but you may not be able to save information that you enter using the Options drop-down menu.
If the user continues to get this message and just cannot figure out which IBM Network Station was used originally, the ultimate solution is to have the user manually delete the lock file, which is normally stored in the NAV subdirectory under the user's home directory. Deleting this file is harmless.
Yes. By default, the browser will display documents using a Western (Latin-1) encoding. This will work for English and western European languages. For other languages, if the document specifies which "document encoding" should be used, the browser will attempt to use that encoding instead. If the document is encoded with a language other than Latin-1, it may be necessary to tell the browser which encoding to use by clicking on Document Encoding on the Options drop-down menu, and then selecting the appropriate language.
Note: For the documents to display correctly using an encoding other than Latin 1, the fonts for the language must be available on the Network Station.
The following are the drop-down menus available on the Menu Bar at the top of the browser:
File | Edit | View | Go | Bookmarks | Options | Directory | Window | Help
Tool Bar - Icon buttons above the Location field.
Directory Buttons - The buttons below the Location field.
Option | Description | Shortcut Keys |
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New Web Browser | Open a new browser window | Alt + N |
New Mail Message | Send a Mail Message | Alt + M |
Mail Frame | Mail frame contents | Note: This option is only available on a page with frames |
Mail Document | Send the current document as mail | |
Open Location | Display the document at the URL specified | Alt + L |
Open File | Display the contents of a file residing in the file system on the host server | Alt + O |
Save Frame as | Save the current frame in a file on the host server | Note: This option is only available on a page with frames |
Save As | Save the current document in a file on the server | Alt + S |
Upload File | Allow files to be uploaded to sites that allow FTP Write access | |
Print Frame | Print the current frame to a PostScript printer | Note: This option is only available on a page with frames |
Print the current document to a PostScript printer | Alt + P | |
Close | Close the current window. (If only one window is open this option is not available) | Alt + W |
Exit | Close all NC Navigator windows | Alt + Q |
Option | Description | Shortcut Keys |
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Undo | Undo the last Edit command | Alt + Z |
Cut | Cut the selected text to the clipboard | Alt + X |
Copy | Copy the selected text to the clipboard | Alt + C |
Paste | Paste previously cut or copied text to a text input area | Alt + Y |
Find | Search for a user-specified string in the current document | Alt + F |
Find Again | Find the next occurrence of the search string | Alt + G |
Option | Description | Shortcut Keys |
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Reload | Reload the current document from its source on the web server Note: The NC Navigator will check the source to see if there have been any changes, if there have not it will load from cache. To ensure a full reload from the source hold the SHIFT key down and reload. |
Alt + R or Shift+Alt+R |
Reload Frame | Reload the current frame from its source on the web server | |
Load Images | Load images not previously loaded | Alt + I |
Refresh | Reload the current document from memory cache | |
Document Source | Display the HTML source code for the current document | |
Document Info | Display information about the current document (some items shown are: location (URL), file type, and content length) | |
Frame Source | Display the HTML source code for the current frame in a document | |
Frame Info | Display information about the current frame in a document | |
Option | Description | Shortcut Keys |
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Back | Navigate back to the previous document | Alt + left arrow key |
Forward | Navigate to the next document (only if the back button has been used) | Alt + right arrow key |
Home | Navigate to the Home Page | |
Stop Loading | Interrupt the loading of a document | ESC key |
The items below the Stop Loading menu item on this menu will display the locations that have been visited in this session -- click on one to go to that site |
Option | Description | Shortcut Keys |
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Add Bookmark | Add the current page to the Bookmark list | Alt + A |
The items below the Add Bookmarks menu item on this menu will display the bookmarked URLs |
Option | Description |
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General Preferences | Set desktop appearance (toolbars, etc.), fonts, and image loading attributes. |
Mail and News Preferences | Set preferences for the Email Client and News Reader |
Network Preferences | Set values for cache, proxies, protocols, and other preference settings |
Security Preferences | Set values for alerts, passwords, and client certificates. |
Show Menubar | Checkbox to hide the Menu bar
Note: To restore Menu bar right click on the browser and select the menu item "Show Menubar" |
Show Toolbar | Checkbox to display the Toolbar or hide it |
Show Location | Checkbox to display the Location field or hide it |
Show Directory Buttons | Checkbox to display the directory buttons or hide them |
Autoload Images | Checkbox to automatically load images in a document |
Document Encoding | Select the character encoding set for a document |
Save Options | Save the options for future sessions |
Option | Description |
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IBM Network Computing | The IBM Network Computing site |
IBM Home page | The IBM Corporate site |
IBM Network Station Manager for (system) | IBM Network Station Manager application for the host server |
Option | Description | Shortcut Keys |
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NC Navigator Mail | Start the Email Client application | (More Info) |
NC Navigator News | Start the News Reader application | (More Info) |
Address Book | A place to keep email addresses for sending email messages | |
Bookmarks | Shortcuts to favorite web sites | Alt + B |
History | A list of documents previously opened in the browser window | Alt + H |
The titles of all open browser windows are listed -- to make a window active, select it from this list |
Option | Description |
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About NC Navigator | Version and copyright information |
Help for NC Navigator | These help pages |
Tool Bar:
This is the set of buttons above the Location field.
Button | Description | Back | Navigate to the previous document | Forward | Navigate to the next document (only if the back button has been used) | Home | Navigate to the Home page | Reload | Reload the current page from the source document
Note: The NC Navigator will check the source document to see if there have been any changes, if there have not it will load from cache memory. To ensure a full reload from the source document hold the SHIFT key down and click on Reload. |
Images | Reload missing images | Open | Open a location (URL) | Print the current document | Find | Search for a user specified string in the current document | Stop | Interrupt the current operation |
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Directory Buttons:
This is the row of up to six buttons below the Location field.
Note: These buttons will only appear if they have been defined by your system administrator using the IBM
Network Station Manager.
Button | Description |
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All Buttons | Buttons are defined by the system administrator |
Windows Manager Keyboard Commands:
Some important information regarding mail and news:
To open the Message Composition window and send email, select New Mail Message from the File drop-down menu.
The following items will appear in the drop-down menus:
File Menu:
Option | Description | Shortcut Keys |
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Send | Send the mail currently in the window | Alt + Enter |
Attach... | Attach an item to the current mail selection | |
Include Original Text | When the current mail selection is a Reply to an email message, this option will copy the text from the original message into the current message | |
Save As... | Save the message currently in the window | Alt + S |
Print the current message to a Postscript printer | Alt + P | |
Close | Close the Message Composition window | Alt + W |
Edit Menu:
Option | Description | Shortcut Keys |
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Undo | Undo the last edit operation | Alt + Z |
Cut | Cut highlighted text from input fields or text area of the mail window | Alt + X |
Copy | Copy highlighted text | Alt + C |
Paste | Paste the last selection cut or copied to the input fields or message body | Alt + Y |
Paste as Quotation | Paste the last selection that was cut or copied to the message body with a greater than symbol, (>), at the beginning of each new text line | |
Clear | Clear text from the message window | |
Select All | Select all text in the message window | |
View Menu:
Note: The items in this menu specify what is seen in the Message Composition window. An option is selected
by clicking the appropriate checkbox.
Option | Description |
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All Fields | Display all fields listed below |
From | Display email address of the sender |
Reply To | Text input area for the email address to which replies to your message will be sent |
Mail To | Text input area for the email address to which the mail will be sent |
Mail CC | Text input area for the email addresses of people who will receive a carbon copy of the message |
Mail BCC | Text input area for the email addresses of people who will receive a blind carbon copy of the message
A blind copy does not display the email address of the blind copy recipient to other recipients |
File CC | Text input area for the directory where a copy of the message will be stored
The default value for this is specified in the Options drop-down menu, Mail and News Preferences... selection, Servers panel |
Newsgroups | Text input area for the names of the newsgroups where the message will be posted |
Followups To | Text input area for the names of newsgroups where replies to the message will be posted |
Subject | A brief statement describing the content of the email message |
Attachment | Text input area for the file names of any attachments to the email message |
Wrap Long Lines | Toggle word wrap on or off |
Options Menu:
Option | Description | |
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Mail and News Preferences... | Set preferences for the Email Client and News Reader | |
Immediate Delivery | Deliver the message as soon as the Send button is clicked | This option is selected by clicking the checkbox |
Deferred Delivery | Deliver the message later | This option is selected by clicking the checkbox |
Window Menu:
Option | Description | Shortcut Keys |
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NC Navigator Mail | A window in which to view email messages | (More Info) |
NC Navigator News | A window in which to view and post news messages | (More Info) |
Address Book | A place to store addresses for sending mail messages | |
Bookmarks | Shortcuts to favorite web sites | Alt + B |
History | A list of documents opened in the browser | Alt + H |
The titles of all open browser windows are listed -- to make a window active, select it from this list |
Button Bar:
Below the drop-down menus is a button bar with these five buttons:
The NC Navigator Mail application requires SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) to send email and POP3 (Post Office Protocol) to receive email. This must be configured on the mail server by the system administrator.
The NC Navigator Mail window is divided into three sections. The upper section of the window is split in two with mail file folders listed in the left section and message headings in the right section. The lower section displays the current message.
The file folders pane will display the following columns of information:
When a mail folder is selected, the message headings contained in the mail folder are displayed in the message headings pane; this pane and has the following columns:
When a message is selected, the message is displayed in the message content pane, which is the lower section of the window.
To open the window for receiving and reading email, select NC Navigator Mail from the Window drop-down
menu.
The following items will appear in the drop-down menus:
File Menu:
Option | Description | Shortcut Keys |
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New Web Browser | Open a new browser window | Alt + N |
New Mail Message | Create a Mail Message | Alt + M |
Add Folder... | Display the Open Folder dialog box | |
Save As | Save the current message in a file on the host system | Alt + S |
Get New Mail | Retrieve incoming mail | Alt + T |
Send Messages in Outbox | Send all messages that have been written but not sent | Alt + H |
Empty Trash Folder | Permanently delete files in the Trash Folder | |
Compress This Folder | Recover the disk space used by deleted messages | Alt + K |
Print the currently displayed message | Alt + P | |
Close | Close the current window (If only one window is open, this option is not available) | Alt + W |
Exit | Close all NC Navigator windows | Alt + Q |
Edit Menu:
Option | Description | Shortcut Keys |
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Undo | Undo the last Edit command | Alt + Z |
Redo | Redo the last Edit command | Alt + E |
Cut | Cut the selected text to the clipboard | Alt + X |
Copy | Copy the selected text to the clipboard | Alt + C |
Paste | Paste previously cut or copied text to a text input area | Alt + Y |
Delete Message | Delete the current message | Alt + D |
Delete Folder | Delete the current folder | |
Select Thread | Select all messages in the current thread | Alt + Shift + A |
Select Flagged Messages | Select all flagged messages in the current thread | |
Select All Messages | Select all messages in all threads | Alt + A |
Find | Search for a user-specified string in the current document | Alt + F |
Find Again | Finds the next occurrence of the search string | Alt + G |
View Menu:
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Sort | Sort the messages using various criteria (See table below)
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Unscramble (Rot13) | Decode a message scrambled using ROT-13 encoding (or encode if the message is not already encoded)
(This option is toggled on or off with a checkbox) |
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Wrap long lines | Checkbox to turn word wrap on or off | |
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Reload | Reload the current page from its source on the web server
Note: The NC Navigator will check the source to see if there have been any changes, if there have not it will load from cache. To ensure a full reload from the source hold the SHIFT key down and reload |
Alt + R or Shift+Alt+R | ||||||||||
Load Images | Load images not previously loaded | Alt + I | ||||||||||
Refresh | Reload the current document from cache memory | |
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Document Source | Display the current message in HTML source code | |
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Attachments Inline | View attachments in the message body | This is a checkbox option | ||||||||||
Attachments as Links | View attachments in the message section of window after clicking on the link in the message body | This is a checkbox option |
Message Menu:
Option | Description | Shortcut Keys |
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Reply | Reply to the sender of the current message | Alt + R |
Reply To All | Reply to all recipients of the current message | Alt + Shift + R |
Forward | Forward the current message on to another email address | Alt + L |
Forward Quoted | Forward the current message on to another email address as quoted text | Alt + Shift + D |
Mark as Read | Mark the current message as read | |
Mark as Unread | Mark the current message as unread | |
Flag Message | Flag the current message for later reference | |
Unflag Message | Remove the flag on the current message | |
Add to Address Book | Add the email address of the sender of the current message to the Address Book | |
Move | Move the current message to a folder | |
Copy | Copy the current message to a folder | |
Go Menu:
Option | Description | Shortcut Keys |
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Next | Display the next message in the list | Alt + Down Arrow |
Previous | Display the previous message in the list | Alt + Up Arrow |
First Unread | Display the first unread message in the list | |
Next Unread | Display the next unread message in the list | Alt + Shift + Down Arrow |
Previous Unread | Display the previous unread message in the list | Alt + Shift + Up Arrow |
First Flagged | Display the first flagged message in the list | |
Next Flagged | Display the next flagged message in the list | Ctrl + Shift + Down Arrow | Previous Flagged | Display the previous flagged message in the list | Ctrl + Shift + Up Arrow |
Stop Loading | Interrupt loading the current page | ESC |
Options Menu:
Option | Description |
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General Preferences | Set desktop appearance (toolbars, etc.), fonts, and image loading attributes. |
Mail and News Preferences | Set preferences for Email Client and News Reader |
Network Preferences | Set values for cache, proxies, protocols, and other preference settings |
Security Preferences | Set values for alerts, passwords, and client certificates. |
Show All Messages | Checkbox to display all the email messages |
Show Only Unread Messages | Checkbox to display only those messages that are unread |
Show Headers | Checkbox to display the message headers as All, Normal, or Brief |
Document Encoding | Select the character encoding set for a message |
Save Options | Save the options for future sessions |
Window Menu:
Option | Description | Shortcut Keys |
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NC Navigator Mail | A Mail window used to view email messages | (More Info) |
NC Navigator News | A News window used to view and post news messages | (More Info) |
Address Book | A place to keep addresses for sending mail messages | |
Bookmarks | Shortcuts to favorite web sites | Alt + B |
The titles of all open browser windows are listed -- to make a window active, select it from this list |
Help Menu:
Option | Description |
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About NC Navigator | Version and copyright information |
Help for NC Navigator | These help pages |
Mouse Menus:
Right clicking the mouse in the upper lefthand section of the window will popup a menu with these items:
Right clicking the mouse in the upper righthand section of the window will popup a menu with these items:
Right clicking the mouse in the lower portion of the window will popup a menu with these items:
The NC Navigator News application requires NNTP (NetNews Transfer Protocol) to read or post news items. This must be configured on the news server by the system administrator
To open the window for reading and posting news select, NC Navigator News from the Window drop-down menu.
The NC Navigator News window has three sections similar to the NC Navigator Mail window.
The top left section of the window is the newsgroup pane. This section will display the following columns of information:
When a newsgroup is selected, the message headings contained in the newsgroup are displayed in the message headings pane, which is to the right of the newsgroup pane and has the following columns:
When a message is selected, the message is displayed in the message content pane, which is the lower section of the window.
The toolbar buttons or menu items can be used to read and work with the postings.
With regard to the information provided by Netscape Communications Corporation:
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