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From: hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama LAKE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Question about extracting text from Hypercard ...
Message-ID: <1990Sep1.103407.28992@uwasa.fi>
Date: 1 Sep 90 10:34:07 GMT
References: <1990Aug28.160744.32733@eagle.wesleyan.edu> <44473@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <44473@apple.Apple.COM> jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto) writes:
>In article <1990Aug28.160744.32733@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
>esimon@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
>>How can I extract text from my hypercard stacks, for downloading 
>>onto a mainframe ?
>
>You'll need to write a script using the HyperTalk commands "open file",
>"write <string> to file", and "close file". Here is an example:

Or use stackdumper. You can find it available for anonymous ftp from
nic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100). It's in hyper dir and called
stackdumper20.sit 

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