Thank you for your interest in PC-Hypertext. This diskette contains
three files:

READ.ME You're reading it.
UNPAKPGM.EXE Self-extracting archive file containing the
ready-to-run programs and other files
necessary to use the system.
UNPAKSRC.EXE All source code (written in Pascal under Turbo
Pascal v5.5) for the programs in this package.
UNPAKTXT.EXE Contains the text of the paper which describes the
origins of this package. Some aspects of the
package have changed since the publication of the
paper.

If you are not using a color monitor, see the NOTE at the end of this
file.

Extracting the contents of the archives is simple. On a system with
two floppy drives:

Boot the system in the normal way.

Insert this diskette into drive A and a blank, formatted diskette
into drive B.

At the A> prompt, type UNPAKPGM B: and hit return. When the
program finishes, all the necessary programs, files, and
documentation will be on the diskette in drive B.

If you wish to unpack the source code, place another blank,
formatted diskette in drive B and type UNPAKSRC B: and hit return.

Place the diskette containing the programs in drive A, type DEMO,
and hit return.

On a system with a hard drive, you may wish to make a subdirectory for
this package and perhaps another one for the source code. Assuming
you created subdirectories on the C drive called \HYPERTEX and
\HYPERSRC, you would:

Place this diskette in drive A.

Type A:UNPAKPGM C:\HYPERTEX and hit return.

Type A:UNPAKSRC C:\HYPERSRC and hit return.

You can unpack the paper (UNPAKTXT) following either approach.

If you insist on reading linear text, you can print README.SRC. But
beware: Each chunk of text is linear; the arrangement of chunks is
not. You'll have to skip around on your own.

If you encounter problems, feel free to contact the author:

Steve T. Jones
Department of Math and Information Sciences
Indiana University at Kokomo
2300 South Washington Street
Kokomo, IN 46902
(317) 455-9330
[email protected]

I would appreciate hearing about your impressions and in particular
about any useful applications of this software. I welcome suggestions
for POSSIBLE future revisions. Again, thanks for your interest.

NOTE: A monochrome monitor attached to a Monochrome Display Adapter
will work fine. Type MAKEMONO and then run DEMO. The MAKEMONO batch
file will re-compile the README hypertext using the MDA configuration
file. The demo will then look OK.

A monochrome monitor attached to a color adapter may look pretty bad.
I recommend that you run the demo on a color monitor (to see what it
should look like) then run MAKECFG to try to find a set of colors that
will work on your monitor.

MAKEDEMO.BAT will re-compile the database with the color configuration
file, HTC.CFG. This returns it to the orginal condition.

As I noted above, feel free to contact me if you have a problem.