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From: dlugose@uncecs.edu (Dan Dlugose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: A couple of questions
Message-ID: <1991Jan14.170239.15849@uncecs.edu>
Date: 14 Jan 91 17:02:39 GMT
References: <1991Jan10.034648.2751@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <1991Jan10.034648.2751@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au> n_hays@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au writes:
>Hi all,
>A couple of simple questions. Is there any way to "put" something into the
>message box without it becoming visible? 
 
   Here's another simple solution which might be useful:

    put return &mytext into msg
    -- then later to retrieve mytext
    put line 2 of msg 
    -- or put msg into mytext
    -- delete line 1 of mytext -- there may be >1 lines left

Dan Dlugose


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