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- Are cross-file jumps hypertext? <sum06 1 8>
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- Jumps between Systems containing many files or nodes, with each
- information units containing jumps to other files are often called
- ================= hypertext <link29>. But, ARE these programs hypertext?
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- Are these │ Gofer -- searches for key words in all files │
- products │ AskSam -- searches for key words in all files │
- hypertext? │ ZyIndex -- indexes all words in all files │
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- To extend word searches into hypertext, one might:
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- (1) Sort a book index by page numbers
- (2) Make separate files at breaks in the page numbering
- (3) Add index cross-references to each of the files.
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- Active While putting pieces of the index into each file is
- Cross-references an improvement over a single-location index, this
- ================ system does not organize the information into a unified
- body of knowledge. See taxonomies <link55>
- (more)
- Linguistic Nevertheless, HyperRez does contain linguistic methods
- Hyper-text (i.e., word oriented) of jumping to key words in
- ========== other files. These methods are:
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- Hypertext jump
- ============== <link54 -"methods"> finds first occurrence of "text"
- in the defined file.
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- Text search In constructing knowledge systems, I've created several text
- =========== searching programs that automatically build hypertext links.
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- MATCH -- searches all files for user-entered text matches
- MP -- searches all files for defined phrase matches
- RMP -- searches all files for key word clusters
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- While all this sounds grand, I think that good hypertext
- anticipates and solves all desired access to information
- without the user ever thinking of a need to search text.