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From: mikef@bbs.acs.unc.edu (Michael Freedburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: marking only cards of a certain background
Keywords: mark cards, limiting it to a background
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Date: 15 Feb 91 19:33:21 GMT
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You know, I hate this!! This is a problem to which there is a solution
so simple, so elegent, so **obvious** that my tired and now dessicated
brain has no power left to come up with it. I need to mark only the
cards of a certain background in my mailing label stack, which contains
three backgrounds. Now, of course I could write a little loop:
go to first card of bg "TheLabels"
repeat for the number of cards in background "TheLabels"
	mark this card
	go to next card of background "TheLabels"
end repeat
but this seems stupid and wrongheaded!! I know that there is some way
for me to use the more extensive mark cards where syntax, but what is
it? I tried to do: mark cards where name of background contains
"TheLabels" but this does not work of course.
Help me, please!! I'm so tired and the last two bottles of Jolt now only
induce more typos rather than increase my efficiency....
Jeanne, Kevin, as one netter says:
release my from this trance
mikef@samba.acs.unc.edu