> hypertext is the generic term for files which have been cross-referenced
HTML, used via the HTTP (HyperText Transmission Protocol), is not only
an hypertext but also an hypermedia (text, image, sound) description language.
> (like Windows' help files), whereby if you point/click/select a
> highlighted word, you then jump to a different file.
This different file could be a remote file! (ie. thousand miles away)
> p.s. I don't know that much about Unix flavours (now if it was DOS...)
Under UNIX the same ideas remain .. only much much better! :-)
The "standard" software to access thoses HTML files is XMosaic.
Daniel