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- HyGlos (TM) Demonstration Hypertext System
-
- (uploaded with the permission
- of MaxThink's Neil Larson)
-
- Background The HyGlos system is easy-to-use, memory-resident or TSR
- hypertext system, operating in a mere 70K of memory.
- This memory space holds the runtime program, hypertext
- information files, and link trail.
-
- This makes HyGlos useful for "online help" and "online
- reference" systems running simultaneously with many
- application programs, such as word processors, modem
- programs, databases, etc. The HyGlos runtime program is
- license-free, which means it can be distributed with any
- constructed information system. It is very similar to
- HyperRez, which is the runtime program for the popular
- HYTELNET library catalog TELNET information reference.
-
-
- MaxThink hypertext links and moves using standard ASCII
- text files. The links are simply angle-bracketed
- filenames "<sample>", sometimes with added numbering to
- indicate specific screen and line numbers. It can also
- display compact colorized character-graphic screens.
-
- Larson feels that using this lowest common denominator
- file format means that users can easily construct
- hypertext systems with common editing and graphics
- programs. This is his contribution to "democratizing
- knowledge," of making information easily accessible and
- transferable.
-
- This system With HyGlos, MaxThink has upgraded the earlier HyperRez
- memory resident hypertext, adding several powerful new
- features and utilities.
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- HyGlos also supports word and position link jumps.
- However, it adds the power of "online word lookups" with
- a keyword index utility which can also hold definitions,
- glossary terms, and thesaurus terms/references.
-
- The more than 20 HyGlos utilities (not included with
- this demo) include:
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- ** Auto-relationship linking utilities for words in the
- title or descriptive lines of files;
- ** Stopword elimination from the online glossary lookup;
- ** Glossary or lookup index building utilities;
- ** Hypertext structure examination utilities;
- ** "Integrity check," which checks to see that you
- haven't forgotten to include linked files, or misspelled
- file names;
- *** and others....
-
- Installing and 1) Use PKUNZIP to extract the HyGlos demo from
- running the demo compressed format. It's best to put the files into a
- separate directory, or on a floppy disk.
-
- 2) From DOS, enter "HG" to start the HyGlos program. It
- will load, and leave a concise information screen giving
- the (user-definable) hot key, and instructions for
- leaving or terminating the program. The default demo
- system hot key is ALT-W; the ESCape key will exit the
- system and return to your foreground application.
-
- 3) When you first enter the hypertext system, you will
- display the START.TXT file, or root menu for the entire
- system. You can jump to linked <files> by highlighting
- the angle-bracketed jumps with the Up and Down cursors,
- and by making jumps or backtracking with the Right and
- Left cursor arrows.
-
- 4) At any time in the hypertext you can press the F1 key
- for a short help screen. The "p" key will print a
- displayed file. The "t" key will "terminate" HyGlos, or
- remove it from memory.
-
- 5) When you leave and then return to the hypertext, you
- will reenter at the screen you left. Press CTRL-HOME if
- you wish to jump back to the root screen.
-
- 6) The "glossary feature" displays a KWOC (keyword out
- of context) index, using the keywords out of title lines
- of the included system text files. You can enter the
- glossary by pressing the "L" or "lookup" key, and
- entering the word you wish to lookup. There are also
- automatically inserted glossary jumps at the ends of
- most files, in the format...
-
- ==== <g WORD> n links in glossary topic
-
- This tells you that there are _n_ links for this term
- listed under that word in the glossary index.
-
- 7) Please note that the super-concise information format
- is not required. This is Neil Larson's own style. But
- remember that ANY ASCII text files may be used, with any
- kind of formatting of which you & your word processor
- are capable.
-
-
-
- Conclusion That's all there is to explaining this particular demo
- file. I hope it's of interest, and that you may find
- the software approach useful. MaxThink software is
- available at very economical prices, and can be used to
- produce powerful information systems.
-
- For software information, contact:
-
- MaxThink Software
- 2425 B Channing #592
- Berkeley CA 94704
- voice (510) 540-5508
- fax (510) 548-4686
-
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