Are jumps within a file real hypertext?         <sum06 1 5>
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GOTO hypertext      Some programs claim that jumping to various parts of a
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                    However, like the GOTO command of BASIC, these forms of
                    hypertext tend toward spaghetti systems rather than
                    organized knowledge.  Why?

What are the        The limit for constructing GOTO hypertext systems
complexity limits   is probably 30 unique files containing 100 cross-
without network     jumps.  You can do that using only HyperRez and
modeling tools?     your word processor.                See <link13>
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                    But, to go beyond this complexity limit, you'll need
                    ways to plan, represent, and abstract the connections.
                    For hypertext construction, my schematic tools are:

What are the tools    MaxThink Outline/Idea Processor    -- <link61>
for hypertext?        HOUDINI System/Network Processor   -- <link62>
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                    For examples of GOTO hypertext, you might consider:

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products       ³    AskSam     -  keyword jumps in flat files <link29 1 22>  ³
hypertext?     ³    Grand View -  keyword/topic jumps in outline file        ³
==========     ³    Agenda     -  keyword/topic jumps in a network file      ³
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                    While each of these products do serve certain visions
                    of computing, their claims that jumps within a file
                    represent hypertext reflects a misunderstanding of the
                    hypertext concept.

Competitors?        From my vantage point:
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                        (1) HyperRez and PC-Hypertext outperform AskSam
                        (2) MaxThink outperforms Grand View
                        (3) Houdini outperforms Agenda
                        (4) TransText outperforms WordPerfect

Why?                Because, unlike these mentioned competitors, I offer
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                    software <link27> designed to easily find, represent, and
                    communicate significant ideas ...and leave the processing
                    (typically low-level thinking) to others.