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From: david@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu (David Kaufmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: combining stacks
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Date: 8 Jan 91 22:47:55 GMT
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Here's a problem: I have four different mailing lists in hypercard
stacks. Each mailing list is for a different grouping, with some
significant overlap (this is the way I got them and so transferred
them thus into the MAC and hypercard, as the easiest data base type
program to use--I'm the main user, but others may need to get to it).

One list, for instance, is everybody; #2 is a short list for most
frequently contacted, a third the women's auxiliary, etc. 

The lists are used at the moment almost exclusively for mailing
labels, but I hope to be able to put on other information later (but
that's secondary).

1) What's the easiest way to combine the lists, putting on some tag so
that I can extract names as needed from group 1, 2, 3 or whatever, for
labels?

2) Is hypercard the best program to use (I don't have any others and
this is a non-profit group I work for)?

I realize this may require some extensive scripting, but so be it.

Thanks for the help, and e-mail is ok.

David Kaufmann
INTERNET:	david@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu