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 "", 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. 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: ** 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 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... ==== 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 This file created by... .............................. Ernest Perez, Ph.D Access Information Associates 2183 Buckingham, Suite 106 Richardson TX 75081 214-530-4800 INTERNET: eperez@utdallas.edu BITNET: eperez@utdallas ..............................