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From: jkc@Apple.COM (John Kevin Calhoun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Good books on HyperCard (was Re: Goodman's HC2 book complete?)
Message-ID: <46413@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 8 Nov 90 20:01:12 GMT
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In article <3916@idunno.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@stone.Princeton.EDU (Brian 
Kendig) writes:
>
> [discussion of the following books deleted]
>
>>The Complete HyperCard 2.0 Handbook, Third Edition by Danny Goodman
>>(P/N: T0148LL/B, $29.95)
>
>>Cooking with HyperTalk 2.0 by Dan Winkler and Scott Knaster
>>(P/N: T0398LL/A, $39.95)
>
>>HyperTalk 2.0: The Book by Dan Winkler and Scot Kamins
>>(P/N: T0399LL/A, $29.95)
>
>The only caveat to getting one of these books is that all three were
>written and published before HyperCard 2.0 was finished.  There may be
>a few things that have changed between Then and Now

I'm aware of one thing that changed after the book by Winkler and Kamins
went to press.  Their section on the Picture XCMD is almost completely
wrong.  The description of the Picture XCMD in the book by Goodman is
correct, as far as I could tell during my cursory review of it.

Kevin Calhoun
HyperCard Engineer
Apple Computer, Inc.