HYPER TEXT SYSTEM AND ITS DISPLAY METHOD

In a display of a hyper text, a hysteresis of an access to a reference file is stored into an access hysteresis file together with attribute information of the reference file. On the basis of the hysteresis of the access stored in the access hysteresis file, the presence or absence of the access to the file on the reference destination side corresponding to each link is judged. With respect to the reference file which was judged such that there was the access, on the basis of the attribute information stored in the access hysteresis file, a variation after the access of the reference file is detected. A link corresponding to the reference file is displayed in a display form according to the detected variation in a manner such that the presence or absence of the access which was judged can be discriminated. Thus, in a hyper text system, the user can recognize the variation after the access of the reference file which was accessed before.