From: montulli@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: alt.hypertext
Subject: Re: Unix and Hypertext
Date: 23 Jul 92 10:52:08 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

In article <1992Jul23.054306.11220@nuscc.nus.sg>, bchtantw@nuscc.nus.sg (Dr Tan Tin Wee) writes:
> Lou Montulli writes
> : The University of Kansas has developed a distributed unix (and others)
> : hypertext package, for use in its Campus Wide Information System (CWIS).
> : This package is simalar to WWW in fuction, and related to Hyperrez in
> : document design.  At this time there isn't an X windows version, but we're
> : working on it.  There will also be a MS-DOS, MAC, and VMS version available
> : in the future.  The hypertext reader, called Lynx, is also a nearly complete
> : gopher client as well.  This software is currently in Beta test, but it
> 
> I tried logging on but there seems to be a bug regarding vt220 terminals
> which your program didn't like.   I had the same problem initially with
> gopher.  Anyway, I got through a vt100 emulation. Works fine, feels
> just like Hytelnet.  Familiar to us because we have been working on the
> same lines as yourselves, but in a much smaller scale, for a
> biocomputing package, and recently for an internet browser of biological
> databases.

This is a UN*X related problem, with there not being a vt220 terminfo entry.
I've been correcting them as I find them, but a few slip by me, thanx for
the info.

> 
> Seems as if the gopher and the wais interface in the telnet version
> I tried relies on executing an external call to gopher or swais 
> rather than being built-into Lynx.  Our modified version of the
> Hytelnet hypertext reader by Earl Fogel (unix port) is doing precisely
> this ie the call to an external command.  
> Do you think it useful to incorporate gopher or wais into
> the Lynx code, or retain it as a separate client which Lynx can call.
> 
> : can be obtained at the asking.  If you would like to try out a sample
> Yes I will be interested in having a look at your program in detail.
> I liked the index, print and = options which you have in addition to
> the Hytelnet unix port features. Could you send me a copy?  or say
> where to ftp from.
> 
The gopher code is built into Lynx, and yes you can definately get a copy.
Lynx isn't available via anonymous ftp now because we would like to finish
the documentation before distribution.  The gopher suggestion is a good one,
and I would definatly appreciate any others that some of you vetran hypertext
users may have.

> : distributed hyper-base, telnet to acs5000.cc.ukans.edu and login as "info".
> : The controls are alot like Hyperrez. (Please don't sue:)
> Our version which is used for a biocomputing sequence analysis package
> GCG should be available by anonymous ftp at nuscc.nus.sg in /pub
> under the name gcgmenu.tar.Z by the end of this week.
> My colleague Derek Kiong who modified the Fogel code got permission
> from Earl Fogel to distribute the modified hypertext browser together
> with our database of documents.
>              

Is this a distributed system??

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