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From: cohill@vtserf.cc.vt.edu (Andrew M. Cohill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Is the Hypercard home stack magic ??
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Date: 8 Apr 91 20:19:27 GMT
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In article <41011@cup.portal.com> gort@cup.portal.com (george d harrington) writes:
>>Is there anything magic about the Hypercard home stack? The Claris doccy syas
>>
>The home stack must br present and must be called "Home", but you can
>call any stack you want "Home" and that will satisfy HyperCard. The

There's a bit more to it than that.  There are several cards in the Home
stack that tell HyperCard how to act and where to look for things.  If
you don't have them in your Home stack you are going to have some
problems.  But 
you can have Home stacks that look substantially different from the
Apple-supplied Home.


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