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From: lrasmuss@dante.nmsu.edu (Linda Rasmussen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Hypertext, UNIX
Summary: Hypertext Products for UNIX
Keywords: Hypertext, Hypermedia, UNIX
Message-ID: <179@opus.NMSU.EDU>
Date: 21 Mar 89 22:56:50 GMT
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These hypertext products are currently available for UNIX:


--KMS (Knowledge Management Systems), a complex and extensive system
  originally developed at Carnegie-Mellon University.  See:
    
   "KMS: A DISTRIBUTED HYPERMEDIA SYSTEM FOR MANAGING KNOWLEDGE
    IN ORGANIZATIONS," by Akscyn, McCracken & Yoder.  In "Communications
    of the ACM," Vol.31, No.7, July 1988.

              or write

   Knowledge Systems
   4758 Old William Penn Highway
   Murraysville, PA 15668 U.S.A.

--GUIDE, the precursor of the Guide now available on the Mac and IBM-PC.
  UNIX Guide was developed and is available through the University of Kent
  at Canterbury.  I have tried this one and it has a good interface, 
  button mechanisms, etc.

  Contact:   Mark Wheadon
             Computing Laboratory
             The University, Canterbury
             Kent  CT2 7NF,  Great Britain   (mcw@ukc.ac.uk)


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Both of these need computers with mice and windowing systems such as
X-Windows or SunView. We needed a system that could be accessed by a 
large variety of terminals & computers on our campus network, many
without mice or windows.  The alternative we are using is working out
well: EMACS INFO (somewhat customized).

EMACS INFO allows the use of menus within text, cross-referencing, etc.,
and is extremely fast and easy to get around in (uses single keystroke
commands). We set up keys to take users directly to central locations
such as Index, TOC, Instructions, and INFO has keys to take users
up and down the hierarchies, to previously visited nodes, etc.



These are the main products available commercially. Brown University also
has an experimental system called INTERMEDIA that reportedly allows up to
40 windows open at once, supports not only text and graphics but also 
3-D object viewing and soon video.  (At the Institute for Research in
Information and Scholarship, IRIS.)

If anyone knows of others, please post.