Introduction7

HFRD Hypertext Services - Environment Overview

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1 - Introduction




K This document primarily written for use internal to HFRD and assumes that Nperpsective without apology. Any additional usage is subordinate to its role Owithin HFRD. The hypertext software has been written expressly for supporting Man intra-organisational hypertext environment on a VMS platform. It too, is Dunreservedly tailored to this purpose and the requirements of HFRD. 

@ The document assumes a basic understanding of hypertext Ktechnologies and uses some terms without explaining them (e.g. HTTP, HTML, =URL, CGI, etc.) It is not a tutorial on writing HTML Mdocuments. The reader is refered to documents specifically on these topics (some are available 8on-line within HFRD, 5but are often best consulted from the Internet WWW). :

This document contains a number of on-line, hypertext demonstrations and examples.

H HFRD is using hypertext technologies (a.k.a. Web and WWW) to assist in Nproviding an integrated and commonly-accessable information environment. The LVMS implementation of this has gone to considerable lengths to integrate as Jmuch as possible, all forms of VMS information. This includes plain-text Mdocuments such as programming sources and environment/include files, release Onotes, etc., as well as non-plain-text information like HELP, Bookreader, etc. 

K The purpose of this document is to describe some of the facilities within Jthe HFRD VMS hypertext environment that can be used from within HFRD HTML Ldocuments. The HFRD VMS hypertext infrastructure conforms to all the basic Oconventions of Web technology, although having some facilities specific-to, or !tailored-for its VMS environment. 

A Some of the online demonstrations may not work due to the local Korganisation of the hypertext environment differing from HFRD where it was originally written. 




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