Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!srcsip!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!ux.acs!clarson From: clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: HyperCard 2.0 (press release) Message-ID: <2395@ux.acs.umn.edu> Date: 10 Oct 90 23:22:50 GMT References: <44996@apple.Apple.COM> <8583@ncar.ucar.edu> <1990Oct4.173732.16943@midway.uchicago.edu> <2346@ux.acs.umn.edu> <1023@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> <2375@ux.acs.umn.edu> <8999@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Reply-To: clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) Organization: Iron City, USA Lines: 33 In article <8999@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins) writes: >In article <2375@ux.acs.umn.edu> clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) writes: >>Hypercard 2.0 will ship with a limited set of stacks. I would presume that >>one of the stacks that will ship with 2.0 will be the help stack. Now, I >>may be being really naive; maybe Apple will issue a "novice" home stack that >>will have all mentions of scripting excised. > > Note that the "release" version of HyperCard 2.0 sent to seed sites and >user groups, the five-disk set, had two different help stacks, a general >help and a scripting help. > > It would not surprise me if the scripting help stack were conspicuously >absent from the bundled version. Ah, facts seem to have proven me naive. I guess that the conspiracy theorists are correct. Apple is attempting to turn all Macintosh users into mindless, clicking drones. chaz Say, did anyone notice that the little kid on the 10/6 episode of Twin Peaks looked just like a miniature David Lynch? -- -- "I Am The Reincarnation of Abraham Lincoln", Insists Prince. -spew clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu AOL:Crowbone