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taylor@sphinx.sunworld.com (Dave Taylor) writes:

>Keyvan asks:
>> Does anyone know of a scripting program/environment on the sun similar to
>> Supercard on the Mac. We need to build some online help/documentation package
>> to go with a simulation. Ideally we have a browser that call read only 
>> doucments that contain images and display postscript.

>I suggest that you look into the newly released program - in beta -
>MetaCard, which is a complete emulation of all the interesting parts of
>the Apple HyperCard package, with some interesting additions for Unix
>to boot.  It's a Motif-based package, but it works fine under
>OpenWindows (2.0 and 3.0) as far as I can tell.  Also, I believe the
>product is only in beta release at this juncture, but you can get more
>information by contacting Scott Raney: I have attached the "README"
>file from this package below.

**readme file deleted**

>Reviews Editor
>SunWorld Magazine
>San Francisco, CA 				taylor@sunworld.com

Actually MetaCard *has* been released.  You can anonymously FTP a
save-disabled distribution from ftp.metacard.com (directory MetaCard)
or from world.std.com (directory pub/MetaCard).  We can also email
uuencoded distributions, or mail a floppy (free, of course).  Mail to
info@metacard.com to arrange these last two.

Six engines are available: SPARC, Sun3, DECstation, HP-9000/300,
HP-9000-700, and SCO ODT.  The stacks are portable across platforms.
The cost is $495 for a single user, $2500 for a 10 pack.  Larger site
licenses are available, see the BLURB.txt file on the FTP sites for
details.

Back to the original posters request, MetaCard can import and display
color and monochrome images, but can't import or display PostScript.
You could write an external to do this, however (MetaCard's external
call mechanism is compatible with that of Apple/Claris HyperCard).  If
you need to handle PostScript, check out HyperLook, which uses
PostScript as its scripting language.  It's reportedly as powerful as
MetaCard, but is not portable and is much harder to use.

The HyperLook runtime system is availiable for free via anonymous ftp,
from the following systems:

ftp.uu.net (137.39.1.9)     graphics/NeWS/HyperLook1.5-runtime.tar.Z
turing.com (192.133.90.28)  pub/HyperLook1.5-runtime.tar.Z

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