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- H Y P E R P A D Version 2.2
- FILE HPAD22.INF 20 May 1991
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- What is HyperPAD?
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- Copyright 1989-1991 by Brightbill-Roberts & Co. All rights reserved.
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- WHAT IS HYPERPAD?
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- HyperPAD is an object-oriented application development tool that makes you
- more productive with your PC. HyperPAD also offers more than two dozen
- personal applications, or "pads", each designed to help you manage infor-
- mation and data easily and productively.
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- What is unique about HyperPAD is that you can easily personalize these
- applications, even if you are not a programmer. HyperPAD's powerful tools
- give you the ability to do things with your PC that you never thought you
- could do yourself. If you are a programmer you will find HyperPAD to be a
- rich environment that gives you a huge head start towards your finished
- product.
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- THE ULTIMATE LAUNCHING PAD. When you set up HyperPAD, you create buttons
- on your "home" pad that link you to your MS-DOS software. After setting
- up your home pad to launch applications, you'll never have to stare at
- the DOS prompt again. Just push a button, and HyperPAD shrinks down to
- 4k of memory abd launches DOS programs like Lotus 1-2-3, WordPerfect or
- Windows software like Microsoft Excel, PageMaker or Corel Draw.
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- LONG LIVE DOS. With HyperPAD you launch applications, manage information,
- and plan work in an intuitive, easily personalized desktop environment. All
- without the expensive upgrade of your hardware and software required to
- migrate to Microsoft Windows, OS/2 PM or other graphical environments.
- HyperPAD protects your investment in your DOS software by modernizing your
- DOS environment. You get all the benefits of graphical systems without all
- the headaches and costs.
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- OBJECT ORIENTATION = INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY. HyperPAD features information
- filled fields and buttons that can be used again and again. Create a button
- that launches your word processor, and then copy/paste it to any HyperPAD
- application you build. There are many different flavors of buttons and
- fields from which to choose. Plus, popup menus, dialog boxes, modifiable
- system menus, and more...
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- POWERFUL DESIGN CAPABILITIES. Powerful and easy to use character-based
- painting and drawing tools are built-in, so you can create colorful pads
- that will win the interest and respect of your audience.
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- TOP PERFORMANCE ON EVERY PC. HyperPAD is designed to run on nearly any IBM
- PC, PS/2 or close compatible. Its friendly user interface runs entirely in
- the character mode. This brings you two important benefits:
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- o Character based systems like HyperPAD far outperform graphics
- based systems like Microsoft Windows and OS/2 PM. Whether you
- are using a run of the mill PC-XT or the fastest 80x86 on the
- market, HyperPAD runs faster.
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- o You are assured that an extremely broad audience can run the
- pads you develop, since nearly everyone has the minimal system
- requirements of HyperPAD.
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- SPECIAL FEATURES. HyperPAD includes an easy to use DOS manager and something
- far more powerful and useful. With HyperPAD you can link information by any
- association thus creating powerful "hypertext" systems. You can create
- interactive tutorials and computer based training (CBT) systems. You can
- build flat file databases or front ends to corporate database systems. In
- fact, as you use HyperPAD you'll find new applications almost daily.
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- "I didn't think it was possible to do such a nice job with
- the character mode"
- -- Mitch Kapor
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- "The Ultimate Launching Pad"
- -- Esther Dyson, Release 1.0
-
- "... deceptively simple but remarkably rich ..."
- -- Jeffery Tartar, Soft_Letter
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- "PC managers, training directors, and the rest of us shouldn't
- be without it."
- -- Danny Goodman, PC World
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- "It's pretty cool!"
- -- John C. Dvorak, Industry Columnist
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- DOWNLOADING AND INSTALLING HYPERPAD. HyperPAD takes the form of five archive
- files named HP22Dn.ZIP (where n is a digit 1 thru 5). The latest version of
- these files can be found on Compuserve in the PCVENC forum, library 1. Each
- of these files should be downloaded and unzipped with PKUNZIP 1.02 (or
- better). Be sure and use the "/d" switch with PKUNZIP so that sub-directories
- in the ZIP files will be created and utilized. Here is an example of a proper
- command line:
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- C:\APPS\HPAD> PKUNZIP -d a:HP22D1 *.* <enter>
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- More detailed instructions can be found in the file INSTALL.DOC which is
- found in the HP22D1.ZIP file.
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