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HYPERIOR.COM specs as of 04 Feb 91.
HYPER Inline Onboard Reader
Copywright (c)1993 by Dave Byter, proliferate freely.
This is my formula for a user friendly textfile hyperreader.
This design is for ibm MS-DOS 3.3 on 5.25" disks, with clusters of 1K, tho this
is applicable to other formats. The text is produced by your favorite text
editor.
The output is to display a cluster on screen, including ID, title line, &
several threads(0) in the text[1] and/or{2} bottom<3>. Use what for thread
markers#4#? *0* is the default trail, which leads on. The user enters [no,
you don't have to press <ENTER> every time] a letter/number/symbol to move to
the next block. The end of each cluster would have several (hidden) pointers
to other blocks, which are used by the program to hop around.
The program keeps track of the trail, allowing back & forth movement. It sets
placemarkers. It writes username, trail, & placemarkers to disk. This could
be on the book disk or on the reader disk. Of course, if the programmer were
clever enuf, then the reader program, text, and user info might all fit on the
same disk. And even have space left over for user notes.
Upon entry, the reader program prompts for name & recovers trail & markers, &
offers to jump to last cluster read. It tracks repeat (via different trails)
blocks & unread blocks.
It has a find function. This needs to be only a word or two. (Line break
problem is avoided this way?)
The onboard inline dictionary: Point & Grunt on a word and looks & it displays
the entry in the dictionary of one liners. Dictionary is a way to a short
deadend side passage, in speleological terms. It is a collection of
too_small_to_be_a_clusters.
Does such a thing (or similar) exist, or need I write it myself? This is so
simple that I can conceive of it in BASIC. Specifically, Apple II Applesoft
and frequent forays into machine language, which isn't much help with ibm.
A compiler to keep track of the IDs & title lines while writing would be nice,
but not essential. The prototype could have a separate DOS file for each
cluster. Everybody gets along with MicroSoft DOS (tm). Don't you? Yeah??
David Beiter, CAVE Inc, 1/2 Fast Road, Ritner, KY 42639 606/376-3137