Information stored on the "exp" line.

What should we store in the "explanation line" which is generated overnight and is turned up by a search? Don't be confused by the term "explanation line - it is historical. In fact it refers to a record containing the following information.

• Is there an anchor? Is it already seen? (Should 'seen" information be stoerd by the server rather than by the client?)
• Name
• Explanation - a one-line title
• Find group, category and hierarchy level (internal server use only)
• Functional flag: Indicates whether a plain text, help, or see prologue for more complex things. This is a fudge for the VM FIND application only.
• Line number of a subset of a master file. Effectively, this is part of the filename, when (for ellow pages for example), many small hypertext nodes are in fact stored in the same file.
• Resposible person's CCID (identifier for WHO). This information would normally be avialable ina hypertext system only when one has jumped to the node concerned.

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following a discusion with Bernd 20 Apr 91

Tim BL