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From: thom@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (Thom Gillespie)
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Subject: Re: Things I won't miss in Hypercard 2.0
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Date: 29 Aug 90 01:01:27 GMT
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In article <1990Aug28.214702.7520@midway.uchicago.edu> chh9@quads.uchicago.edu (Conrad Halton Halling) writes:
>I got flamed a little [it barely singed my hair :-) ] because 
>   1)  I'm posting bugs that have been discussed previously and
>   2)  I'm way past the window for bug fixes in HyperCard 1.2.5.
>
>Well, these bugs are new to ME, and I haven't seen any discussion of them
>on this forum (which I've been reading for two months, when I began a
>multi-stack project).  I'm using Danny Goodman's _The Complete HyperCard 
>-- ...
>Conrad Halling

I think a listing would be more useful than a posting of individual bugs. Some
thing a little warmer than tech notes. A simple stack of bugs and then users
can post their kludges around them. Individual postings tend to get missed.
Something quarterly would be nice.

Another thought->

I think the 2nd edition of the Shaffer book had some info which was posted. I
thought this was a nice touch. So far HyperCard is a little different than
other updates to software. Since the latest version runs on all machines, few
people have any reason to sit with 1.2.1, they will go to 2.0. I have ALOT of
old HyperCard books from past versions. I hate to think of parting with my
HyperCard Bible from Waite but it is badly out of date and from what I've heard
they have no plans to update for 2.0 -- I can't figure out why. Their book is
excellent, it just needs some new info.

--Thom