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From: dlugose@ecsvax.UUCP (Dan Dlugose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Floppy mounting and hypercard
Message-ID: <7410@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jul 89 20:33:29 GMT
References: <56129@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: dlugose@ecsvax.uncecs.edu.UUCP (Dan Dlugose)
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <56129@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Howard P Marvel <marvel@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>using an idle handler in hypercard doesn't work because HyperCard
>never idles.  Is there some way around this from within HyperCard?  By

An idle handler WILL give the system time to mount a floppy if you
give it several chances (i.e. after the idler handler has executed a
few times).  So if you know that a student has a file by a certain
name, you can try opening it and check the result.  Not elegant, but
serviceable if you want to avoid an XCMD.

Dan Dlugose
UNC Educational Computing Service