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- From: harmo@valt.Helsinki.FI (TIMO HARMO)
- Newsgroups: alt.hypertext
- Subject: Re: SUMMARY: HyperText sytems (hyperwriter)
- Summary: Found two commercial HyperText packages
- Keywords: hypertext
- Message-ID: <harmo.150@valt.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 11:01:31 GMT
- References: <12627@ztivax.UUCP>
- Sender: news@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Uutis Ankka)
- Organization: University of Helsinki, Faculty of Social Sciences
- Lines: 17
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- >From: gaa6926@usl.edu (Accardo Glen A)
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- >It isn't public domain, but it is rather inexpensive and it is good:
- >HyperWriter! by NTERGAID. Their phone number is (203) 380-1280. The
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- I must disagree. I bought the package because of a PC-mag (byte?) review,
- and somebody praising it in the net, but I found it rather horrible,
- crashing all the time, very slow scrolling (or no scrolling - if you move
- down one line, the whole screen is redrawn), very unfinished program.
- Ntergaid told they have now fixed some bugs (like now you can click with
- mouse at directly at the hotspot, not one line below it as in my version!).
- And it wasn't that inexpensive either.
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- You can always take a look at Black Magic (ntergaids pd-hypertext system,
- archie should be able to locate it somewhere), and if you like that one,
- maybe you should consider getting hyperwriter (if you do, I can sell my copy)
- -Timo (harmo@valt.helsinki.fi)
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