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From: fleming@cup.portal.com (Stephen R Fleming)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Need a new type of field
Message-ID: <40188@cup.portal.com>
Date: 15 Mar 91 13:50:11 GMT
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If you only need to store one-liners in it, sounds to me like you could
use the name of a button as a visible write-protected field.  Meets all
your criteria except that it requires disk access.

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