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netscape(1)
NAME
  netscape - Invokes Netscape browser for the World Wide Web

SYNOPSIS
  netscape [ flags ] [ { file | URL } ... ]

FLAGS
  -display display
      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

  -geometry =WxH[[+|-]X[[+|-]Y]
      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.

  -help
      Causes Netscape to display a help message listing the command's flags
      and their meanings.  The Netscape application itself is not started.

  -iconic
      Causes Netscape to start up minimized instead of starting with its
      window displayed.

  -id window-id
      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.

  -install
      Instructs Netscape to install a private colormap.

  -mono
      Forces Netscape to use one-bit-deep display of images.  Text and other
      non-image elements can still be in color.

  -ncols N
      When not using -install, sets the maximum number of colors to allocate
      for images to N.

  -no-install
      Instructs Netscape to use the default colormap.

  -noraise
      Instructs Netscape not to auto-raise the window to which subsequent
      remote commands are issued with the -remote command.

  -raise
      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).

  -remote remote-command
      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.

  -version
      Causes Netscape to show its version number and build date.  The
      Netscape application itself is not started.

  -visual {id|number}
      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 flag.

  -xrm resource-spec
      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.

PARAMETERS
  file
      Specifies a local file to be viewed.

  URL Specifies a Uniform Resource Locator (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 language.	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
  applications 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 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 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 documentation
  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
  resource-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 complete
  information about setting options and preferences.

FILES
  /usr/doc/netscape/hot-convert.sh
      Shell script for converting Mosaic hotlist files to Netscape bookmark
      format.

  /usr/doc/netscape/Netscape.ad
      Sample X Window System resource file.