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From: shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Thinker and HyperText for Amiga
Keywords: hypertext thinker
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Date: 3 Apr 89 07:48:04 GMT
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Reply-To: shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson)
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I looked at the demo version and was not impressed.  I'd love to
have a hypertext system to store my text files, saved articles, code
fragments, etc., so I picked up the Thinker demo disk.  It's a 
very limited subset of hypertext -- just a set of text blocks arranged
hierarchically.  Blocks can be optionally labeled as a kind of glossary.
When a label appears in another block somewhere a double click branches
to the labeled block.

There are a few extensions of this basic idea.  A link in the text can
be the name of a workbench icon (i.e. a file with a .info file) which
will be launched with a double click.  A link can also be an IFF picture
or sound file.

It does not support two-way links, quoted text, any kind of formatting
or fonts, or diagrams or pictures in the text stream.  Worst of all for
my needs, the text is not filesystem transparent.  I want a system that
doesn't require me to remember filenames.  To do this with Thinker, I'd
have to keep all my data in a single file.  Multiple files can be linked,
but the document has to have the filename of where it's linking in the
text stream.  That kind of defeats the purpose for me.

Needless to say, I didn't spend the sixty bucks for a working version.
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		Stuart Ferguson		(shf@well.UUCP)
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