//www.vsm.com.au/wasd_root/src/hyperreader/*.*

//www.vsm.com.au/wasd_root/src/hyperreader/.

Emulates the "Bookshelf Navigation Utility" (BNU) of 1997ff on-line documentation CD releases, and the Bookreader shelf navigation capability of earlier times. It has some additional capabilities not found in either, the ability to provide access to PostScript and plain-text documents. Requires the following entries in the server's configuration file:

  .BKB             application/x-script  /HyperReader  Bookreader book
  .BKS             application/x-script  /HyperShelf   Bookreader shelf
  .DECW$BOOK       application/x-script  /HyperReader  Bookreader book
  .DECW$BOOKSHELF  application/x-script  /HyperShelf   Bookreader shelf
  .ODL             application/x-script  /HyperShelf   BNU shelf

See the About page for further comment, the Help page for functional information, along with Navigation Help page.

Fix_book.mar:

A utility courtesy of Volker Halle for "repairing" books downloaded via a (web) server as stream files, having lost the RMS VAR record structure.

https://eisner.encompasserve.org/~halle/fix_book.mar

Demonstrations:

Default Library (results may vary with local environments!)
SYS$COMMON:[SYSHLP] *.DECW$BOOK

  Name                                 Revised         Size  Description
  obj_axp/                    1-Sep-2020 21:38          512  subdirectory
  OBJ_IA64/                  29-Mar-2021 01:53          512  subdirectory
  OBJ_X86_64/                 9-May-2022 03:13          512  subdirectory

  build_hyperreader.com      22-Jan-2025 01:06        1,500  DCL procedure
  build_hypershelf.com       22-Jan-2025 01:06        1,496  DCL procedure
  enamel.h                   22-Jan-2025 01:06        9,983  C header
  fix_book.mar               22-Jan-2025 01:06       15,136  MACRO-32 source
  hyperreader.c              22-Jan-2025 01:06      155,258  C source
  hyperreader.h              22-Jan-2025 01:06        1,950  C header
  hypershelf.c               22-Jan-2025 01:06       85,056  C source
  readme.html                22-Jan-2025 01:06        1,561  HyperText Markup Language