----------------------------Original message---------------------------- LIBRARY RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET HYPERTEXT VERSION, V1.0 ------------------------------------------------ Ernest Perez eperez@utdallas.bitnet The RASD/MARS "Library Resources on the Internet: Strategies for Selection and Use," edited by Laine Farley, is now available in an MS-DOS hypertext edition. I have made a minimum of textual or content changes, mainly restricted to "chunking" and restructuring the document for hypertext format. Laine Farley reviewed the hypertext beta version and made suggestions and comments, incorporated into the released version. The RASD/MARS document has previously been electronically posted in ASCII text and WordPerfect formats. I am adding my hypertext version to those earlier "electronic editions." I hope it will be a useful information dissemination tool and a practical hypertext demonstration for librarians and end users. The runtime hypertext engine is "Hyplus," another MaxThink, Inc. hypertext product, similar to their memory-resident "HyperRez" version. HyperRez is the program which Peter Scott used for the popular HYTELNET guide to Internet OPAC access. Hyplus trades power features in return for losing the memory-resident convenience of HyperRez. It adds features like: selective printing, "mark and save" to ASCII text files, easy "bookmarking," fast string-searching within displayed text, an online glossary/KWOC index facility, easy display of the link trail, and a simple full-text search utility. With Hyplus, you can also easily call up your own ASCII editor to use for making your own notes, adding links, and other personal customizing of the hypertext system. This hypertext system is available by downloading two files by anonymous ftp from: ftp.unt.edu in the "library" subdirectory. The files are LIBINET.DOC and LIBINET.EXE. The first is an ASCII text file with instructions for installing and initially using the hypertext system. The .EXE file is a "self-extracting" ZIP or compressed file, When decompressed, it contains about 140 files, of approximately 480K in size. I have below further adapted Peter Scott's adaptation of Roy Tennant's concise instructions for retrieving files via anonymous ftp. The following describes how to obtain LIBINET version 1.0 from Billy Barron's (University of North Texas) ftp site (thanks Peter, thanks Roy, thanks Billy): TO RETRIEVE LIBINET: -------------------- At your host system prompt, enter: ftp ftp.unt.edu When you receive the Name prompt, enter: anonymous When you receive the password prompt, enter your Internet address: eperez@utdallas [for example] At the ftp> prompt, enter: cd library Then enter: get LIBINET.DOC At the next ftp> prompt, enter: binary Then enter: get LIBINET.EXE After the transfer has occurred, enter: quit Then you will be back to your own host command mode. (A BIT OF EXPLANATION: the ftp program defaults to ASCII text transfer, for the LIBINET.DOC file. The "binary" command changes the transfer type to binary for the LIBINET.EXE binary file.) TO DOWNLOAD IT TO YOUR PC: -------------------------- There are many PC communications and "protocol transfer" programs, and I will not attempt to give step-by-step instructions here. Check your software instructions for for downloading *binary* and *text* files from your Internet account to your PC. You might want to to check first with your computer center staff to get time-saving pointers. (They get Reference Desk assignments, too.) TO UNCOMPRESS LIBINET.EXE: -------------------------- Make a new directory on your hard disk (e.g., mkdir hytelnet) Copy LIBINET.DOC and LIBINET.EXE into the new directory. Make sure you are in that directory, then enter: libinet The self-extracting ZIP file will automatically decompress into the hypertext runtime files. Please print and read LIBINET.DOC for further installation tips and instructions on how to use the hypertext system. PROBLEM-SOLVING CAVEAT: I am neither an Internet nor ftp expert, I've myself basically just been a follower of clear instructions, like Roy Tennant's, in the past. The variety of systems and installations and problems/quirks is apparently endless. If you have problems with ftp-ing or downloading, please check with your local computer center staff or friendly neighborhood network power user. Cheers, Ernest Perez Access Information Associates eperez@utdallas.bitnet Gordon, Let me know if the files are okay. I tried to get all the "set file type binary" things set correctly, but it's so stupidly exacting. Like the old 1960s mainframe mentality. Where are damn macros and automatic transmissions when you need them? If you get the LIBINET.EXE okay, and unzip it. One final change is needed for the CONFIG.HP file. Call it up with an ASCII editor and then insert the following into the table position for the OVERLAY line... -dc:. That is telling the overlay to shell out to DOS and leave a swap file in the current directory, if one is needed. Easiest thing to do would just be to use BW.BAT or COLOR.BAT, as desired. Those files include the proper overlay parameter in the table. In any case, please give me some feedback on my ASCII-based hypertext venture. The MaxThink programs were the ones I used for the case study for my disser- tation. Just accepted on Oct 16, and final copies turned in on Nov 22. The graduation is Dec 14 (day before I go to Hypertext '91) cheers, ernest Gordon, Oops, that CONFIG.HP file line should look like _this_: Overlay Parameter -dc:\. It'd be best to change it in the other two config files, with the .CLR and .BW extents. That way someone won't write over .HP with an incorrect one. -it never ends... ernest