NOTEBOOK.ZIP/NOTEBOOK.EXE ========================= SHAREWARE HYGEN-BASED NOTEBOOK ------------------------------ This contains Neil Larson's excellent free hypertext program, along with a copy of my own hypertext medical notes. You can find out more about Hygen from MaxThink: Neil Larson MaxThink 2425 B Channing #592 Berkeley, CA 94704 USA Voice ... 510-540-5508 or 415-379-9253 BBS ... 415-387-3353 FAX ... 510-548-4686 Email ... neil@maxthink.com Web ... http://maxthink.com FTP ... maxthink.com TO INSTALL: Will _not_ run from a floppy; there are too many files to fit on a floppy. Copy it into a subdirectory on your hard disk. NOTEBOOK.ZIP: Unzip with PKUNZIP, WinZip or another ZIP program. NOTEBOOK.EXE: Go to the MS-DOS prompt, or select "Run" from Win 3.1 Program Manager or the Win95 Start Bar, enter NOTEBOOK (or double-click on the file from the Win95 Explorer), and press Enter. It will extract everything you need to run an evaluation version of my hypertext medical notebook. COPYRIGHT --------- None of my materials here are copyrighted. Some material I got by email is credited to the person who emailed it to me. Some of the .PCX pictures that I have on my own version are _not_ included in the version I distribute (e.g., the monoarticular and polyarticular "tree" diagrams under Rheumatology) because they are copyrighted by someone else, e.g., Scientific American Medicine. Since I subscribe, it's fair use for me to include on my own computer, but not for me to distribute to you. Besides, this is just a _demonstration_ of how to make your own hypertext notebook. Please scan in our own favorite diagrams and save them in .PCX format and link them. EDITOR ------ Note that as distributed this uses my favorite DOS editor, Qedit ("Q.EXE"). You should change this by editing the CONFIG.HN file in your favorite text editor (Windows Notepad will work). Unless you have another preference, I suggest you use the MS-DOS editor EDIT.COM as the default editor for changing files. This is the program that allows you to edit files, to add more information, or to link to other files, when you press press the "E" and then press Enter. If your computer came with Windows preinstalled, your EDIT.COM may be along with the other MS-DOS files in C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND. The path to the default editor is in the file CONFIG.HN. The first few lines of this file look like this: ***********example only***********CONFIG.HN************************** Header, 40 characters only Conover's Medical Notebook Editor, 40 characters only C:\utility\q Keystroke to TRACK.TXT (N/O/A) N ... ***********end example*********************************************** If you have a preinstalled version of Windows, change this to look like this: ***********example only***********CONFIG.HN************************** Header, 40 characters only Conover's Medical Notebook Editor, 40 characters only C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\EDIT Keystroke to TRACK.TXT (N/O/A) N ... ***********end example*********************************************** Optional Alternate Editors, Editor Jumps, and Pasting from Windows ------------------------------------------------------------------ Instead of EDIT.COM, I personally use QEDIT instead. QEDIT is a shareware editor that is available from SemWare. They've renamed it "The Semware Editor Jr." (TSE Jr.) and upgraded it but I still use the old version and call it QEDIT. It is very fast. It can edit multiple files at the same time (in different windows). It allows you to configure the keyboard to your liking and allows you to assign macros to keys, for example, a macro to edit (branch to) the file shown in a Hygen angle bracket jump like this . You place the cursor within the angle brackets and press Alt-0, and Thisfile.TXT appears in a window on your screen (see below for specifics). Mailing address: SemWare Corporation 4343 Shallowford Rd, Suite C3A Marietta, GA 30062-5022 USA Phone Sales Department US orders (800) 467-3692 Monday-Friday 9am-5pm ET Outside US (770) 641-9002 Tech Support (770) 641-9002 Monday-Friday 9am-5pm ET Fax (770) 640-6213 24 hours Electronic World-Wide Web http://www.semware.com/ BBS (770) 641-8968 (N-8-1) 24 hours Compuserve E-Mail: 75300,2710 Support Forum: GO SEMWARE Internet Sales & Ordering sales@semware.com Technical Support tech.support@semware.com German distributor Manfred Luft: 100016.3715@compuserve.com Web Administrator www-admin@semware.com I have added one macro to QEDIT so that when I position the cursor on a Hygen and press Alt-0 (that's the Alt key plus the "zero" key) it will jump to or edit that file. Here is the macro, which you can : @0 Macrobegin AltWordSet MarkWord Copy DefaultWordSet EditFile Paste Return You can insert this into the QCONFIG.DAT file to customize QEDIT. I have also tried using a Windows 95 ASCII editor that is similar in some ways to QEDIT/TSE Jr., but runs as a native Windows 95 program. The program is free, and is called Programmers' File Editor (PFE). It is available for download from the following World-Wide Web site in versions for both Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. I now use it all the time in Windows 95 for editing batch files and the like, but have given up on using it as the editor for Hygen. Your mileage may vary so you may like it for this better than I do, which is why I'm mentioning it here. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/people/cpaap/pfe/ I originally started using PFE in Windows 3.1 so I could cut text from a Windows 95 electronic program and then paste this into a Hygen file without having to go through the Windows 3.1 "File" "Edit" "Paste" menus every time I wanted to paste text. However, under Windows 3.1 there was no way for a DOS program like Hygen to automatically put a file into a Windows editor. Hmph. I was pleased to find that under Windows 95, you can change the line in CONFIG.HN like this: ***********example only***********CONFIG.HN************************** Header, 40 characters only Conover's Medical Notebook Editor, 40 characters only C:\PFE\PFE Keystroke to TRACK.TXT (N/O/A) N ... ***********end example*********************************************** and it will work just fine. However, I've found that you can configure Hygen so that when it runs within Windows 95, it will appear with a "quick-paste" button in the surrounding box. Simply clicking on this will paste in whatever you've copied to the clipboard from your email program, from a CD-ROM textbook or whatever. One note: if you use QEDIT/TSE Jr. this way, you may get some strange-looking indentation if you have QEDIT/TSE Jr.'s "autoindent" feature set to "on." This feature is so useful that I leave it on all the time by specifying it so when I run QCONFIG to configure QEDIT/TSE Jr. To disable it temporarily when pasting I press "Esc" "O" "Enter" which should work for you aw sell. DISCLAIMER ---------- NOTE THAT I DON'T VOUCH FOR THE ACCURACY OF ANYTHING IN THIS NOTEBOOK! I have probably mistyped quite a few things, and some others are just plain wrong. You should just use this as an idea of how to do such things yourself. Download a copy of Hygen (the original version, not the one with all my notes in it) and start taking your own notes. Enjoy! --Keith Conover, M.D., FACEP kconover+@pitt.edu http://www.pitt.edu/~kconover