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- From: ag129@cl.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
- Newsgroups: alt.hypertext
- Subject: Re: Partial list of DOS hypertexts
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.122500.3878@cl.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Aug 92 12:25:00 GMT
- References: <Alex.26.714418382@camp.wpic.pitt.edu>
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- Reply-To: ag129@cl.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
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- In article <Alex.26.714418382@camp.wpic.pitt.edu> Alex@camp.wpic.pitt.edu (Alex Ferguson ) writes:
- > The service rep. recommended a program called Folio Views from a
- >comapny called Folio. He said it's the package of choice for HyperText
- >systems currently. I haven't heard mention of it ont the group, and I was
- >wondering if anybody could point me in the right direction as how to contact
- >this company.
-
- I don't know if there is more to Folio Views than is built into the
- Novell NetWare help system, but if there is nothing more to it than
- that, I wouldn't exactly call it a hypertext system. More a full-screen
- help system with selected words that can be clicked on (which is not
- much more powerful than, say, line-mode VMS help) and a global search
- facility. Nice for building a custom help system around, maybe, and
- perhaps it has a lot of OEM customers that way, but I would want to be
- convinced of its capabilities before using it for anything more powerful.
- E.g. does it let the user examine the path they have followed to reach
- information. I suspect the word 'hypertext' is being used as a selling
- point here. You could call IBM's mainframe ISPF package a hypertext system
- that way, and that would be silly!
-