Folio & Contents of the 1992 Mac Edition of afternoon
In 1992 Eastgate Systems, Inc. released both a Macintosh and Windows version of Joyce's afternoon, a story, constituting the 5th and 6th Editions respectively. It is considered the "authoritative text of afternoon, a story" (Kirschenbaum, "Editing the Interface," 31).
While still packaging the work in the vinyl folio and using the same design as the 1990 Edition, the publisher shifted to a gray cover with blue ink. The logo design features the yoni, the Hindu symbol of the womb. The symbol is also used for the launcher icon, thus further emphasizing the novel's exploration of women and men's relationship (Grigar, "Ten Things," 4 May 2016).
It is important to mention that the folio resembles a slim volume of a book that can be placed on a shelf and, so, served as a breadcrumb for readers taking them from "the late age of print" (Bolter, Writing Space, 2) to the new digital age. The vinyl editions of early pre-Web hypertexts published by Eastgate Systems, Inc. were also color-coded so that even though the folios did not have the title of the work printed in their spines, readers familiar with the works' packaging could sometimes distinguish one work from another.