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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.

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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:

Metacharacters:

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