PROGRAM LICENSE --------------- HyperPoc 1.12 is owned and (c)Copyright 1993 by Berthold Daum. All Rights Reserved. This program is shareware. It may be freely distributed (not for resale) only in its original form including this documentation. It may be used freely during a trial period of 3 weeks. After that period you will have to register or you have to cease using the program. For registration details see below. Although HyperPoc has been extensively tested, the author shall not be responsible for any loss of any kind due to its use. It is the user's responsibility to establish the suitability of this software for any particular purpose. Registration ------------ The registration fee is US$35. Please use the form hpreg.txt and send cheques made payable to an Australian bank, Eurocheques, or money orders (no credit cards numbers please) to Berthold Daum 21 Margate St. Beaumaris, Vic. 3193 Australia CompuServe User ID: 100026,3365 Alternatively, you can use the CompuServe registration facilities (GO SWREG). The title residing in the Shareware Registration Database is: Author: Berthold Daum CompuServe ID: [100026,3365] Program Title: HYPERPOC V1.1 Registration ID: 1072 Fee (USD): 35.00 Registration gives you the following benefits: 1. Unlimited use of HyperPoc on any one machine. 2. The right to use HyperPoc for stack development and to distribute HyperPoc with your stacks. 3. Free use of all future shareware versions of HyperPoc. At present, upgrade versions can only be distributed via electronic networks. 4. Free application support for three month. At present, application support can only be offered via CompuServe and not by mail or telephone. 5. Free detailled user manual in printed form. Allow a few weeks for delivery. Stack developers should register anyway. Please make a note that you are a stack developer. We may want to inform you about future developments. We are also happy for creative input. We also give you advice about the distribution of HyperPoc runtime versions (without editing facilities and licence fees). HyperPoc Version 1.12 - Release Notes ------------------------------------- Program Description: HyperPoc is a card oriented hypertext and hypermedia system. Cards are organised in stacks (files). Cards may be superimposed with backgrounds. Cards and backgrounds can contain a variety of objects, such as: application, bitmap (animated), card link, clock, explainer, hotTab, icon (animated), keyword, music, phone number, polyline, rectangle, text. Functions include: Invocation of Series 3 applications, several navigation functions, phone dialling, alarms, stopwatch. Comes with over 30 icons and 20 tunes. Applications: Storing a network of informations. Multimedia documents. Suggestion for those lucky persons who have megabytes of word processor documents in their pockets: Create a card with a short description and keywords for each document and place a button for the document onto the card. Use the HyperPoc facilities to locate a documents, press the button and your document shows up. Use HyperPoc as a database, e.g. for addresses. You may include graphics, link an address to another (e.g. a person to a company), display a clock with a time shift beside a phone number for overseas addresses (you don't want to call them at 3am !), link a word processor document to an address for a dossier of your last meeting, link an alarm clock to a person for her/his birthday, and so on. Installation: You may want to use the MCLINK command file HPINSTAL. First change the drive letters to your requirements, then call under MCLINK "@HPINSTAL". You should then set MANUAL.STA to "Read only". Then install HyperPoc via PSION-I. You should always install MORPHEUS.OPA on the internal disk. MORPHEUS is the hyperpoc alarm handler and always runs in the background. If you install it on disk A or disk B you will have trouble when you want to reformat a disk. Install MORPHEUS as a separate application using PSION-I. Start it by moving the highlight to it and pressing ENTER. MORPHEUS prints a protocol of the alarms set. Leave the MORPHEUS screen by pressing the SYSTEM key. If you want to remove MORPHEUS from the system screen, deinstall it with PSION-Y. It will still run in the background. If you want to stop MORPHEUS, because you don't need the alarm facilities any longer, reinstall it with PSION-I, reactivate it, and press the DELETE key. MORPHEUS picks up the alarms set by hyperpoc and passes them to the Series 3 alarm system so that always the next hyperpoc alarm is known to the system. It will be shown in the TIME application screen as a MORPHEUS alarm. After the alarm has gone off, MORPHEUS will pass the next alarm, etc.. However, it may take up to five minutes for MORPHEUS to recognize a new alarm or an alarm update. MORPHEUS also caters for the repetition of alarms and for alarm time shifts (local time). MORPHEUS communicates with HyperPoc via the file ALRM.$$$ located in the root directory of the internal disk. If you delete this file, you will loose all alarm information. The HyperPoc stacks do not contain any alarm information. Contents of this disc: Notes for Macintosh users: All files listed below must be unzipped as binary files. Use Zipit to do so. Available in Compuserve GO PALMTOP. Modules: hyperpoc.opa, hcshow.opa, hcmod.opa, hcedt.opa, hcuapp.opa, rsset.opa, morpheus.opa Stacks: hyperpoc.sta, address.sta, manual.sta Bitmaps: address.pic, agenda.pic, aid.pic, backward.pic, bin.pic, book.pic, calc.pic, data.pic, face.pic, face2.pic, finder.pic, forward.pic, gallery.pic, hyperpoc.pic, lscape.pic, lupe.pic, musipoc.pic, phone.pic, photo.pic, picpoc.pic, picpoc2.pic, plus.pic, prev.pic, program.pic, question.pic, runopl.pic, simpoc.pic, stack.pic, system.pic, thief.pic, tools.pic, word.pic, world.pic Tunes: Buffalo.tun, Campdown.tun, Cucara.tun, Danube.tun, Donjuan.tun, Elise.tun, Funeral.tun, Goodnite.tun, Maplerag.tun, Mountain.tun, Oldfolks.tun, Preciosa.tun, Railroad.tun, Redriver.tun, Republic.tun, Saints.tun, Sleeping.tun, Susanna.tun, Texas.tun, Volga.tun, Weasel.tun, Yankee.tun Others: readme.txt, hpinstal, hpreg.txt, v111.doc Requirements: The system requires about 54k of disk space plus 2k for MORPHEUS. The example stacks including the manual require 24k of disk space, the icons and bitmaps about 5k, the tunes about 2k. When active, the system requires >23k of memory, depending on the size of bitmaps used. MORPHEUS requires constantly 9k of memory. We recommend to install the system (except MORPHEUS), the manual, the icons and tunes on flash SSD. Compression and Garbage collection: Due to OPL file structure, deleting and updating cards can cause physical gaps in stacks. For efficient memory usage perform a physical compression from time to time (PSION-Z). Deleting objects referring to external files, such as icons, bitmaps, applications, and card links to other stacks, and deleting cards containing such objects, can cause garbage within stacks. This garbage can be removed using the garbage colloction function (PSION-Z). This function includes a physical compression step. It is, however, slow. Documentation: Use MANUAL.STA as an online documentation. Simply place the highlight on the italic keywords using the cursor keys, press Enter and move around from card to card. However, you may also use other navigation methods like PSON-F,-G,-R, etc. For a more comprehensive documentation in traditional printed form you will have to register. The printed documentation contains also information how to include user written applications into the system. Other products -------------- A good complementing product for HyperPoc is PicPoc. PicPoc is a fully fledged paint program. It allows to create icons and bitmaps up to a size of 640x400 pixels. It includes the usual tools including spray and fill patterns (even custom fill patterns). Freeware. Another complementing product is MusiPoc. MusiPoc is a graphical editor for musical tunes of up to 255 notes and rests. It comes with an OPL-subprogram to play tunes from your own application or program and includes more than 20 predefined tunes. Freeware. SimPoc is a spreadsheet application for the Series 3 computer. It can print, displays business graphics, and scrolls fast. It is possible to call OPL-programs from formulas and formulas from OPL-programs. Although it includes such nifty things like lazy evaluation and result cache it comes as freeware.