PC-Hypertext Attributes Summary:

-  Coherent user interface; good documentation; rapid user
learning curve for interaction with compiled application.

-  Rapid construction time.

-  Variety of alternatives for organizing, moving, and displaying
information (text and graphics files).  

-  Automatic linking of repeated information nodes.

-  Hierarchical structure clarifies relationships between
information nodes.

-  Identifies potential nodal relationships to ensure
completeness of associative network structure.

-  User navigates system to identify solutions that best respond
to the context of the query.  

-  Ability to index network information according to multiple
criteria.

-  Accommodates hierarchical and network information structures.

-  Associative links between information nodes (ideas) permit
system browsing, and the links remain valid when the nodal
contents are modified, moved, or changed.

-  Permits the rapid construction or modification of nodal links,
including merging or splitting nodes (idea topics), and creating
associative links between topics according to the key words, text
strings, or parallel existing links.

-  User can annotate or create new nodes and new associative
links.

-  Variety of utility software supports applications development
and systems maintenance.  

-  Permits calls to DOS programs external to the authored
application.

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