Path: utzoo!dciem!client2!mmt
From: mmt@client2.DRETOR.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Using two HyperCards
Keywords: hc1.2.5 hc2.0
Message-ID: <4150@client2.DRETOR.UUCP>
Date: 26 Mar 91 19:36:08 GMT
Organization: DCIEM, Toronto, Canada
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I'm sure someone has had this problem, but I have never seen it mentioned,
so...

I have a set of stacks that I would like to keep maintaining in HC1.2.5
(because I want to distribute them to people who may not have 2.0), but
for any other work I want to use HC2.0.  So I want both versions of
Hypercard to be kept around.  The stacks in question are used with a
special Home stack containing a large amount of script, and I don't want
any other stacks to use that Home stack.  The behaviour I would like
to see is that when I double-click on one of the special set, HC1.2.5
starts up, using the special Home stack.  When I double-click a stack
made with HC2.0, HC2.0 starts up with its usual Home stack.  I cannot
achieve this differentiation.  I have tried putting the two versions of
HC on different disks, keeping all the "special" stacks along with HC1.2.5
in one folder separate from anything else ...  Whatever I do, all my
stacks open with 1.2.5 and the special Home stack, or all open with HC2.0
and the standard Home stack.  I have found that after some shuffles it
is 1,2,5 that is favoured, and after others it is 2.0 that is favoured.
I have thought of changing the creator of 1.2.5 and the special stacks,
but if I did that, I would have to change them back whenever I wanted
to distribute them--a pain.

There has to be a way of linking a stack to the version of HC that
created it, hasn't there?  I can't believe Apple would force people
with HC2.0 to convert all their stacks into a form that people without
2.0 cannot read.
-- 
Martin Taylor (mmt@ben.dciem.dnd.ca ...!uunet!dciem!mmt) (416) 635-2048
BUGS
Skipping backwards is too slow on large files. (man "more")
I'll bet!