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DistributedText is an updated version of an application originally called RemoteText. It mainly fixes one major bug, that is, appending a file (writing to the end of the file) now works properly. You can save your work to the original recipient (i.e. the file you selected in the open panel), allowing clients to ensure the current state of the file is saved to disk. You can also save the your working file into a custom and private file, giving you the capacity to work solely on to it. RemoteText is an application to edit text in cooperative ways. Users can work on the same text simultaneously without having to worry about which version is current, which is not. RemoteText takes care of keeping all versions synchronized even if you are connected to the Moon...provided you have network access to connect to RemoteText entities. This application is a little module of a much more important work on Cooperative tools, HyperText generation, parsing, building and browsing documents of any kind (well text and image is a good start !). This work is part of my thesis researches, i am presently doing at the University of ParisVIII, Saint-Denis, FRANCE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT HyperWorld: Hyperworld will be the work that will result of my thesis research in the Computer domain, and more specifically in the Hypertext technologies. By that time you should be able to build cooperatively: - an hypertext generator (that s my final goal) - an hypertext parsor (that s my final goal) - an hypertext browser (that s my final goal) - an hypertext modeler (that s my final goal) - an opened and dynamical server (a la BackSpace) to let you add functionnalities to the app to suit your specific needs - a editor that combine text and sounds easily and work on them as you do for Ascii text with the current release. - have a 3D viewer like the one proposed by Xerox (look Bytes articles) called Theater. - have a FREE full object oriented database object (that presently work as fast as ObjectStore if benchmarks means somethings...what i doubt). - have Protocols publicly released to enable programmer to attach its Apps with my application (that could be called HyperWorld ? suggestions here ?). You can join me at: phil@cnam.cnam.fr
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