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From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: NetNews Reader 1.2.1
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Date: 8 May 90 19:03:22 GMT
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In article <1990May8.144339.11886@terminator.cc.umich.edu>,
jfmjfm@ruddles.sprl.umich.edu (John F. Mansfield) writes:
> [about the "netnews" HyperCard stack]
> (no Amanda we dont want another Ad saying how 
> much nicer your product is).

Oh, come now...  The only "ads" I send are in response to specific
requests, and are sent by private email or U.S. Mail.

I take great pains not to "plug" our product--for one thing,
I'm an engineer, not a marketroid.  On the other hand, when someone
asks specifically for newsreaders for the Mac, it doesn't seem unreasonable
to mention that it exists.  Some people aren't interested in spending their
time hacking HyperTalk scripts, after all...

On to your question: HyperCard displayed fields are limited to 32K of
data, although HyperTalk containers will, in fact, hold as much as memory
will allow.  What I would do would be to add a button to the article card
that saves the article body out of the original container (instead of the
displayed field), or if necessary, re-fetches the article from the server.
I don't remember off hand if the entire article body is kept around after
it's displayed.

>I am sure it could be  done but I dont have the time to hack at it. It
>would make the stack a lot more usable.

Yup, it would.  Maybe someone can find the time.

--
Amanda Walker, InterCon Systems Corporation
--
"Y'know, you can't have, like, a light, without a dark to stick it in...
 You know what I'm sayin'?"     --Arlo Guthrie