Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!watcgl!kdmoen From: kdmoen@watcgl.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Hypercard *NOT* downloadable? Message-ID: <1680@watcgl.waterloo.edu> Date: Mon, 31-Aug-87 10:31:59 EDT Article-I.D.: watcgl.1680 Posted: Mon Aug 31 10:31:59 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 1-Sep-87 01:39:52 EDT References: <4228@oberon.USC.EDU> <6071@ut-ngp.UUCP> Reply-To: kdmoen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Doug Moen) Distribution: world Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 34 humphrey@castor.usc.edu(Steve Humphrey) writes: >> The only reason I have not rushed out to purchase it locally is that I >> figured I would download it locally and buy the Hypercard Scripting >> Manual. If I'm gonna have to buy it, I want to do it now. jcc@ut-ngp.UUCP (j. chris cooley) writes: >Remember that "HyperCard" is 9 disks of approximately 5.5 Megabytes. >Downloading it over the standard phone lines would be quite a task. Actually, HyperCard is on 4 disks. The first disk is a boot disk that contains no files not on the other 3 disks. The total amount of information that you would have to download is closer to 2 Meg. Thats still 5 or 6 hours at 1200 baud. >If Apple does indeed allow HyperCard to be "freely distributable," >(shareware? ), it would be best if they sold the >manual and documentation alone, say, for $30 at Waldenbooks or >B. Dalton (book stores) or something. Actually, there is no real need. The online documentation is more complete than the printed documentation, which doesn't document HyperTalk. Also, the online documentation is *better*, because it is interactive (you can try things out as you read about them), and fully cross-linked (you can point at an asterisk, or an entry in the index, and jump to the referenced section). You can also make printouts of the online documentation. I understand that old fashioned printed books documenting hypercard will soon be available from third parties, so it really doesn't matter if Apple publishes the user manual or not. -- Doug Moen University of Waterloo Computer Graphics Lab UUCP: {ihnp4,watmath}!watcgl!kdmoen INTERNET: kdmoen@cgl.waterloo.edu