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From: kamins@kumr.UUCP (Scot Kamins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: open file
Keywords: open file
Message-ID: <214@kumr.UUCP>
Date: 28 Oct 90 16:48:24 GMT
References: <484@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Reply-To: kamins@kumr.UUCP (Scot Kamins)
Organization: Late Night Software (San Francisco)
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In article <484@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> musa@cs.arizona.edu (Musa J. Jafar) writes:
>floopy drive whos name is Assignements
>then how to tell HC. to go to the drive Assignements and open
>the file Genes.List

This handler should do it:

on getGenesList
  put "Assignements:Genes.List" into myFile
  open file myFile
  -- add code here to have your way with myFile
  close file myFile
end getGenesList



Hope this helps.

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