Control Data Systems Inc has gone on a long cross-country hike to Providence, Rhode Island for a summit with Electronic Book Technologies Inc, which has resulted in an agreement that the Arden Hills, Minnesota systems integrator will use Electronic Book’s DynaText publishing software to transform all its paper-based documentation into electronic manuals that users will be able to access directly from their desktops. DynaText is claimed to be the first of its kind of electronic book publishing and delivery system and is based on the International Standards Organisation’s Standard Generalised Mark-up Language, and the DynaText browser will be offered as part of Control Data’s standard system software package on all flagship products, with on-line manuals on CD-ROM. Novell Inc and Control Data shareholder Silicon Graphics Inc already use DynaText to provide their users with access to on-line documentation.
