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From: pease@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Pease)
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Subject: Re: Clobbered Stack?
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Date: 26 Sep 90 15:52:37 GMT
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In article <2982@network.ucsd.edu>, jmccarty@ucsd.edu (Jon McCarty) writes...
>I'm not a hypercard expert, but it looks like I have a blown stack @8^o
>At one card (#13), the "next" button stops working.  I can use "find" to
>get to card (#14), but then the "previous" button doesn't work.  I can't
>delete card #13 at all.  "Compress Stack" also reports a "disk error
>-24" on my mac+ and "Can't compress Stack" on a Mac SE/30.  Hypercard
>versions 1.2.5. and 1.2.1, resp.
> 
I had this happen to me once also.  I "fixed" my problem by creating a New
Stack (with same background as the problem stack), then wrote a button script
which went to the problem stack, cut card, back to last card of new stack, and
paste card.  In my case, the stack had a field "name" which I checked to see
if I was at the card before the problem card, and I quit on that card.  I then
modified the script to start at the card after the bad card and proceeded to
copy the remainder of the cards.  This is how I managed to delete the bad card.

Phil Pease 
My witty disclaimer - everything I perceive, through either sensory or
extrasensory means, has been filtered to such an extent that you had better not
attempt to attribute anything I say to anyone else.