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HYPER is a simple program to let you display and browse a subset
of HTML under TBBS with the TDBS add-on.
Link to other file
Link to TBBS (Will not work with default installation, for example only)
It was written by Daniel Lyke for Higher Technology Services' online
information service located in Chattanooga Tennessee.
To browse this database:
- D goes down a page
- U goes up a page
- N highlights the next link
- P highlights the previous link
- Enter follows the highlighted link
- Esc exits the browser
Daniel Lyke
Dan is a professional whitewater guide who programs so that he can
afford to drink good beer.
Among other things, he's been published in Dr Dobb's Journal,
presented papers all over the east coast, got the second "Hero of
Signal Data" award and thinks that 500,000 lines of code is a
mid-sized program.
He works in C, C++, TDBS, Paradox, Windows, MS-DOS, VMS and all
sorts of other neat things, and has experience with video,
rendering, graphics, telecommunications and, although he tries not to
admit it often, databases.
Along with having written this program, HYPER, he's also recently
released freely distributable programs to give Autodesk 3D Studio users
information about their network rendering and a package (including
Windows & DOS executables and C++ source code) to convert between
various color representation schemes (such as CMY, RGB, HSV, HLS,
YUV and YIQ).
He currently works mainly with HTS in Chattanooga, and is interested
in projects involving rendering, animation or ways to improve the
virtual community.
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Whitewater
Whitewater is what you'd get if you filled an industrial strength
washing machine with rocks and sand, got in it, and ran it on the
"Extra Dirty" setting.
For the uninitiated in the Chattanooga area this mainly involves the
Ocoee river, with several commercial outfitters who can give the
absolute neophyte a good safe time in a raft (Dan guides for
Outdoor Adventures Rafting, 1-800-OARSMEN).
For the real enthusiast, this means strapping ourselves in a little
piece of plastic (canoe or kayak) and running anything steep with
water flowing down it. Locally we've got everything from the North
Chickamauga Creek to the road trips up to West Virginia for the
Gauley and down to Georgia for the Chatooga.
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Higher Technology Services
Higher Technology Services runs the HTS information service, provides
bleeding-edge computing assistance to the Chattanooga area and does
lots of custom software.
Our products range from maintenance management systems to scheduling
systems to little hacks that grab data off of a line that an MIS
department thinks is a printer. (We love doing things that MIS
departments claim can't be done...)
Among our technical staff is Dan, a legend in his own mind who
wrote this program.
Higher Technology Services
http://www.highertech.net
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TBBS - The Bread Board System
TBBS is nothing short of the greatest online information system on
the planet. Okay, so maybe I overgeneralize, but it allows you to
run up to 64 lines on one machine, has a highly configurable menu
structure, excellent questionaire support, text searching and good
control of everything.
As if all of that wasn't enough, you can also get add-on packages
to handle Fido technology networks, UUCP hookups, online databases,
QWK mail, hookups out to other services, scriptable dial-out
capabilities...
Among other suppliers, it's available from HTS
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HYPER - A HyperText Browser for TBBS
HYPER is a simple browser that works on HTML like files. Written
by Daniel Lyke, it is distributed as shareware.
HYPER runs under TBBS with the TDBS add-on.
The Registered current versions are available for $50 from HTS.
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HTML - HyperText Markup Language
HTML is a subset of SGML, the Standard Generalized Markup Language,
and is used by systems in the Internet WWW system, with browsers
such as Mosaic.
When I wrote HYPER for TBBS, I wanted to set up a simple
hypertext system that we could use for some of our databases. Since
I didn't want to create "Yet Another Standard", I cut some corners
and wedged some square pegs into round holes and made HYPER read a
document format very similar to HTML.
HTML allows a document creator to insert links, images and other
information into their document. The emphasis is on dealing with the
structure of the document rather than absolute formatting commands,
so rather than specifying that "this text is 24 point helvetica",
you'd specify that "this text is a header" and let the document
reader format it according the the capabilities of the displaying
system.
Examples:
Text directives:
- The text <H1>header 1</H1> produces
header 1
- The text <H2>header 2</H2> produces
header 2
- The text <H3>header 3</H3> produces
header 3
- The text <H4>header 4</H4> produces
header 4
- The text <H5>header 5</H5> produces
header 5
- The text <H6>header 6</H6> produces
header 6
- The text <I>italic</I> produces italic as output
- The text <EM>emphasis</EM> produces emphasis as output
- The text <CITE>citation</CITE> produces citation as output
- The text <B>bold</B> produces bold as output
- The text <KBD>keyboard key</KBD> produces keyboard key as output
- The anchor/link below appears in the text as:
- <A HREF="#Title">Return to introductory screen</A>
- Which links back to a section declared as:
- <TITLE>Title<TITLE>
Metacharacters:
- < appears as "<"
- > appears as ">"
- & appears as "&"
- Æ appears as "Æ"
- Á appears as "Á"
- Â appears as "Â"
- À appears as "À"
- Å appears as "Å"
- Ã appears as "Ã"
- Ä appears as "Ä"
- Ç appears as "Ç"
- Ð appears as "Ð"
- É appears as "É"
- Ê appears as "Ê"
- È appears as "È"
- Ë appears as "Ë"
- Í appears as "Í"
- Î appears as "Î"
- Ì appears as "Ì"
- Ï appears as "Ï"
- Ñ appears as "Ñ"
- Ó appears as "Ó"
- Ô appears as "Ô"
- Ò appears as "Ò"
- Ø appears as "Ø"
- Õ appears as "Õ"
- Ö appears as "Ö"
- Þ appears as "Þ"
- Ú appears as "Ú"
- Û appears as "Û"
- Ù appears as "Ù"
- &Uml; appears as "&Uml;"
- Ý appears as "Ý"
- á appears as "á"
- â appears as "â"
- æ appears as "æ"
- à appears as "à"
- å appears as "å"
- ã appears as "ã"
- ä appears as "ä"
- ç appears as "ç"
- é appears as "é"
- ê appears as "ê"
- è appears as "è"
- ð appears as "ð"
- ë appears as "ë"
- í appears as "í"
- î appears as "î"
- ì appears as "ì"
- ï appears as "ï"
- ñ appears as "ñ"
- ó appears as "ó"
- ô appears as "ô"
- ò appears as "ò"
- ø appears as "ø"
- õ appears as "õ"
- ö appears as "ö"
- ß appears as "ß"
- þ appears as "þ"
- ú appears as "ú"
- û appears as "û"
- ù appears as "ù"
- ü appears as "ü"
- ý appears as "ý"
- ÿ appears as "ÿ"
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