Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!udel!mmdf From: Dickson@his-phoenix-multics.arpa (Paul Dickson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: How 'Bout HyperCard! Message-ID: <2432@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 8 May 88 19:50:49 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 20 I have put a little preliminary thought work into an IFF format for supporting a Hypertext type data structure. So far, most of my thoughts have led to a random access format, mainly because I expect the file to be larger that available memory. Here are some of the thoughts I had: The file reader would scan through the file looking for labels (or tags). The positions of these labels would be saved. This task could be done with a background task. There would be data associated with the labels, such as how to put requestors on the screen and when a requestor is selected, what new label we go to. After selection data, the actual data is supplied in an older IFF format (such as ILBM). I haven't gotten much further, real work tends to take a large bite out of my spare time (oh how I wish this could be real work 8-). -Paul Dickson Dickson%pco @ BCO-Multics.ARPA