A hypertext system may be accessible to authors
and readers in several ways:
- single user only
- multiple users, one at a time
- multiple users simulataneously, either on a LAN or on-line
- multiple users, each at different locations (distributed
access)
Multi-user access is usually taken to mean the third method. Such an
ability is important in a research environment, or for a collaborative
fictional hyperbook. In these cases, issues of security become important.
Few hypertext systems attempt to deal with these issues. We have been
working with FileMix, an experimental program which allows for distributed
access.
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