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From: korcuska@plato.ils.nwu.edu (Michael Korcuska)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: a mailinglist database?
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Date: 11 Mar 91 23:23:34 GMT
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Reply-To: korcuska@plato (Michael Korcuska)
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In article <5074@mindlink.UUCP> George_Wade@mindlink.UUCP (George Wade) writes:
>you could try the address book stack that comes with hypercard.
>Just add data to it.
>define or redefine the fields to suit as necessary for your friends sorting.
>This can be done at any time, before, during or after data entry.
>Cut and paste data into appropriate fields when the design is finalised.
>I believe that you can print merge in the background under multifinder.
>If this quick fix works out well, you might want to do a proper custom job
>later.         

If the database is going to be really big or used often I'd watch using 
hypercard.  Maybe 2.0 is better but printing large stacks is very slow and
very large stacks have trouble printing in one piece.  It's also hard to
view the database in any sort of list format or do sorts or merges.  You
could, of course, write all this stuff yourself but it will still be slow. 
There are also probably some mailing label hypercard products out there, but
if you're going to buy something, buy a program that was designed to do
mailing labels, etc.

I've used something called Address Book Plus from Power Up! software which
seems quite good.  It'll print envelopes, labels etc and do simple flat file
database stuff.  It's cheap, too (or was when we bought it).  

I say this because i just spent a morning getting all the data out of 
someone's 8000 entry hypercard address book and importing it into Filemaker
(not as cheap). 

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Michael Korcuska                      The Institute for the Learning Sciences
korcuska@ils.nwu.edu                                  Northwestern University
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