ep all information within the Eos network realm. A large bank of modems and connection to the Internet provides access and file exchange from outside the network. Within such an environment, there has been considerable inducement to move away from paper and to explore electronic methods of instruction. One of the difficulties, though, has been the lack of multimedia tools available on the Unix
... [Show full abstract] workstations which make up the Eos network. As powerful as these workstations are, the Macintosh computers we have in some of our local labs have a better ability to prepare multimedia material. By in large, material which is being exchanged on the Eos network has been either ASCII text based or binary files specific to a particular software package. Ideally, what would be desired is a method of integrating graphics (color and black and white), text, sound, animation, etc. into files which are independent of platform or operating system. This instructional material would run in all these communic