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What is Hyper-G?

In short, Hyper-G is a distributed hypermedia information system
designed for maintaining large quantities of documents and links. The
server stores hyperlinks in a separate database, enabling consistency
checking and navigational aids such as link maps. There are many more
interesting features which I cannot possibly mention here.

A Hyper-G server is accessible using both WWW (try for example URL
http://hgiicm.tu-graz.ac.at) and Gopher clients. However, to fully
exploit its potential, you need a Hyper-G client. Two such clients are
available as alpha versions: Harmony (for UNIX/X11) and Amadeus (for
PC/MS-Windows), as well as a VT100 terminal-mode interface.

More detailed information on Hyper-G can be found under

http://hyperg.iicm.tu-graz.ac.at/hyperg

The software itself is under

ftp://ftp.iicm.tu-graz.ac.at/pub/Hyper-G

in the following subdirectories:

Server Hyper-G Server Installation Script
UnixClient VT100 client for UNIX - installation script
Harmony Harmony (the UNIX/X11 client)
Document-Viewers Stand alone document viewers of Harmony
Amadeus Amadeus (the PC/Windows client)
VRweb VRweb (free VRML browser for Hyper-G, Mosaic & Gopher)
doc Documentation on Hyper-G (mainly PostScript)
talk some slides & illustrations that we use for Hyper-G talks

NOTE: This directory is mirrored daily (nightly) to:

(Australia) ftp://ftp.cinemedia.com.au/pub/Hyper-G
ftp://gatekeeper.digital.com.au/pub/Hyper-G
(Austria) ftp://ftp.tu-graz.ac.at/pub/Hyper-G
(Czech Rep.) ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/Net/Infosystems/Hyper-G
(Germany) ftp://elib.ZIB-Berlin.DE/pub/InfoSystems/Hyper-G
ftp://ftp.ask.uni-karlsruhe.de/pub/infosystems/Hyper-G
(Italy) ftp://ftp.esrin.esa.it/pub/Hyper-G
(Poland) ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/Hyper-G
(Portugal) ftp://ftp.ua.pt/pub/infosystems/www/Hyper-G
(Spain) ftp://ftp.etsimo.uniovi.es/pub/Hyper-G
(Sweden) ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Networked.Information.Retrieval/Hyper-G
(UK) ftp://unix.hensa.ac.uk/mirrors/Hyper-G
(USA) ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Hyper-G
ftp://mirror1.utdallas.edu/pub/Hyper-G

There is a mailing list for information and discussion about Hyper-G.
The developers and maintainers of the system inform the list about new
contents and features, and are in turn interested in user feedback
(such as problem reports, suggestions, wishes, and complaints).

Since the list is unmoderated, please avoid sending junk mail and
auto-replies to the list!

To subscribe or unsubscribe, send mail to "[email protected]"
with the following message body:

subscribe hyper-g <your name>
or
unsubscribe hyper-g

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Frank M. Kappe [email protected]
Institute for Information Processing and Computer Supported New Media (IICM)
Graz University of Technology, Austria
Voice: ++43/316/832551-22 Fax: ++43/316/824394
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